Mark Simpson (speaker) states his primary mission: to gain direct access and influence with major online travel agencies (OTAs) — specifically Airbnb, Expedia, and Booking.com — so hosts can communicate directly with those platforms about changes that impact hosts. He notes current engagement is limited but that early discussions with some OTAs have begun.
Now that my ultimate goal and my ultimate mission with all of this is to not only get the attention of the Airbnb group, of the Expedia group, and a booking.com group, but it's to get not a seat at the table, but basically have an access, have a back phone access. So when they're looking to make all these changes that are going to affect us hosts, they can speak to us directly and we can give them a bit of advice. At the moment, I don't think that's truly there with any of the OTAs. Discussions are starting to happen with a couple of them, which is fantastic. And I just want to be able to be able to have basically, let's call it a seat at a table.
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