Technology's great, but you can only be as good in technology as your people are.
As a company, we believe in free and open borders. We feel this best facilitates the exchange of cultural values and ideas.
India has a sizeable chunk of the Asian travel market - both inbound and outbound travel.
We believe in global scalability with local relevance.
We are a bottom-up culture, and we need a communications platform that can facilitate that.
The move to Internet-enable travel booking is creating massive convenience, efficiency, and savings for consumers.
There are more and more properties joining us to benefit from and leverage our global online marketing expertise.
Both business and leisure travellers are enjoying unprecedented levels of choice.
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.
India is a fast-growth market and is developing a lot. We continue to increase our partners here and make investments.
From our earliest days, Booking.com has been deploying technology to help strip the friction out of travel.
Friction still exists in travel, and we are on a quest to go even further to make the entire experience - from planning to staying and beyond - even easier with technology.
Employing women is good for business.
There's no point being at the airport longer than needed.
Japan is a very important market for us and has grown remarkably as one of the most popular travel destinations in the world.
Eventually, people should just say 'give me the best hotel in a certain date in a certain location.'
With any previous transition we made with technology, it hasn't been the case that we need less people.
If you look around Booking.com, it's a very gender-balanced company.
I think companies need to take more ownership over the gender gap themselves because if everybody does that, then overall, it will improve.
Booking.com is one of the biggest translation companies in the world.
