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Swapping life in the fast lane at a startup accelerator to launch a rail travel company is an unusual career path, but trains could be about to have their moment.
Cat Jones was previously a managing director at London’s Founders Factory, but quit to start Byway, which specializes in flight-free travel and holidays, in March last year.
She said there were raised eyebrows at the time, with the pandemic bedding in, but the timing may just work in her favor, coinciding with a predicted rise in sustainable travel, for both leisure and business, and shifts in working culture.
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The knock on Expedia Group over the years was that it was too U.S.-focused, but the online travel agency turned that into a strength during the first quarter at least temporarily.
Referring to Covid’s uneven global trajectory as a “study in contrast,” Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern told financial analysts Thursday that the company “benefited greatly in our vacation rental business and our domestic U.S. business, but other parts of the business still remain challenged.”
So while in the first quarter of 2019, before the pandemic ruptured the world, Expedia Group generated about 62 percent of its revenue from the U.S. But in the first quarter of 2021, because the U.S. was relatively open, and much of Europe and parts of Asia were locked down, Expedia Group generated more than 80 percent of its revenue domestically in the U.S.
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Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern. (Expedia Group Photo)
Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern said the travel industry remains a “study in contrasts” citing a rebounding U.S. travel market and strong vacation rentals in beach and other outdoor destinations. But at the same time, Kern, speaking on the Seattle company’s first quarter earnings call, pointed to rough patches in business travel, traditional lodging and international travel.
And he specifically noted the worsening COVID-19 situation in India, where Expedia maintains a large presence.
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