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Although Marriott, the leader, has the best market capitalization among hoteliers with more than 45 billion US Dollars, it is far behind Amazon which surpasses 942 billion US Dollars. Even the all-powerful Booking (close to 81 billion USD) acts as a Tom Thumb with respect to newcomers. Tourism is...
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