Expedia Group’s Cyril Ranque spoke about the company’s new action against hotel resort fees at the Expedia Explore ’19 partner conference in Las Vegas November 14, 2019. Expedia Group
Skift Take: Expedia Group’s stance on resort fees could have been drafted by a United Nations diplomat. Expedia doesn’t want to alienate hotels and seeks to pick up market share based on Booking Holdings’ more forceful position. But it’s hitting resort-fee-charging hotels right where it hurts — in the prominence of their listings.