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" What always drove me was my curiosity. That's what made me join Booking and not be afraid to leave a very successful job and then go into a startup. "
Gillian Tans
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" Employing women is good for business. "
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" On the one hand, you have markets such as Singapore and Thailand, with an extremely strong inbound booker market and a well-developed tourism industry. You also have markets that are just opening up to tourists, like Myanmar, that have massive growth potential and then markets that are extremely fragmented within themselves such as Indonesia. "
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" I found the Internet really fascinating. "
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" Eventually, people should just say 'give me the best hotel in a certain date in a certain location.' "
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" There's no point being at the airport longer than needed. "
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" We want to make sure that we have the right products for Chinese people. "
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" My mother was from an entrepreneurial family and very creative. She always pushed me to take risks, to do things I wouldn't have thought of. "
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" I think companies need to take more ownership over the gender gap themselves because if everybody does that, then overall, it will improve. "
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" We are putting a lot of investments behind building customer loyalty. We need to make sure we keep investing in the right tech that will help customers. If we keep doing that well, we will keep progressing. "
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" I'm a master at getting as much in a day as possible. "
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" Every customer is different, and the travel experience is completely fluid, but the end goal is to find the best solutions. "
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" From the early days, Booking.com has been disruptive. Our aim is to create the best product for our customers, and we do that through constant innovation and testing. "
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" Traveling changes you as a person. If you buy something, it's so different than if you put your money into traveling. "
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" A long time ago, we had to build interfaces to connect with other companies, and I thought that was a great idea. The company had to pay a lot of money to build it and basically launched it, but our whole operating system almost broke. So, we couldn't continue it. In the end, I had to go on the train to Paris to explain that I had spent millions. "
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" Both business and leisure travellers are enjoying unprecedented levels of choice. "
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" Things like chatbots, machine learning tools, natural language processing, or sentiment analysis are applications of artificial intelligence that may one day profoundly change how we think about and transact in travel and local experiences. "
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" I've always been curious and taken many risks, but that is quite atypical for a woman. On the other hand, I think that's the only way to grow beyond yourself. "
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" As CEOs or board members, women are still underrepresented, and that gap is actually growing. "
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" The move to Internet-enable travel booking is creating massive convenience, efficiency, and savings for consumers. "
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" For me, it's about taking things that do not take a lot of space. Don't take a lot of shoes. I tend to pack a lot of dresses, for instance, because they take up less space. "
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