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Short transcript from a YouTube video (Short Stay Summit, London) in which Mark Simpson asks attendees to describe online travel agents (OTAs) in one word. Multiple attendees respond with single-word descriptors including: "Greedy", "Super hosts", "Past Endangered", "Resilient", "A partner", "Disability", "Necessary", "Dependence", "Good", "Unreliable", "Huge", "Overbearing", "Big collaborative hell", and "Crafty". The clip records a rapid, opinionated snapshot of industry sentiment toward OTAs.

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