Ask HN: What happened when Amazon moved into your business?
I work for Booking.com. Amazon entered the hotel reservation business in early 2015 with Amazon Destinations, and then inexplicably shut it down a few months later[1].<p>At the time there was the expectation that they'd drop commissions to the floor and compete on ultra-thin margins, and there's certainly a lot of room for that in the travel industry.<p>But they didn't, and then just left within a few months. Weird.<p>1. <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/14/amazon-shuts-down-its-hotel-booking-site-amazon-destinations/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/14/amazon-shuts-down-its-hote...</a>