想知道今年美國(guó)經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展如何，格倫·福格爾說(shuō)去機(jī)場(chǎng)看看就知道了。

“人們都在旅行，飛機(jī)滿艙，酒店客滿。人們都在高高興興地出門旅行。”他說(shuō)。

福格爾在全球最大的在線旅游公司Booking Holdings擔(dān)任首席執(zhí)行官，掌握著相關(guān)統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)據(jù)。公司總部位于康涅狄格州諾沃克，為數(shù)百萬(wàn)用戶提供220多個(gè)國(guó)家的酒店、機(jī)票、民居、公寓，租車和餐館的預(yù)訂服務(wù)。該公司旗下?lián)碛锌脱摹⒆廛嚲W(wǎng)站rentalcars.com、訂餐網(wǎng)站OpenTable、priceline.com、booking.com和agoda.com等。各項(xiàng)業(yè)務(wù)收入已達(dá)127億美元，也躋身《財(cái)富》美國(guó)500強(qiáng)公司榜單。

他擔(dān)心什么？“貿(mào)易戰(zhàn)談判對(duì)各方都沒(méi)有好處。”他指的是美國(guó)對(duì)中國(guó)商品征巨額關(guān)稅，以及兩國(guó)之間艱難的貿(mào)易談判。繽客在中國(guó)有不少業(yè)務(wù)，因?yàn)槠煜赂鞴驹谥袊?guó)有超過(guò)一千名員工。此外，繽客對(duì)中國(guó)最大的在線旅行網(wǎng)站攜程持有不少股份，在流行的打車軟件滴滴出行也做過(guò)大筆投資。

目前福格爾認(rèn)為，美國(guó)和中國(guó)有希望達(dá)成貿(mào)易協(xié)議。“我認(rèn)為從長(zhǎng)遠(yuǎn)來(lái)看，推動(dòng)人們更多旅行而不是更少旅行，對(duì)各方都有利，”他說(shuō)。 “所以我不是很擔(dān)心。”（財(cái)富中文網(wǎng)）

譯者：馮豐

If you want to know how the U.S. economy will do this year, Glenn Fogel says just go to the airport and look around.

“We see people are traveling. We see the planes are filled. We see that the hotels are filled. We see people pretty happy about going out and getting travel,” he says.

As the CEO of Booking Holdings (BKNG), the world’s largest online travel company, Fogel has the stats on all that. The Norwalk, Connecticut based company makes reservations for millions of its customers at hotels, airlines, homes, apartments, rental cars, and restaurants in more than 220 countries. It owns Kayak, rentalcars.com, OpenTable, priceline.com, booking.com and agoda.com. All that business adds up to revenues of $12.7 billion and a ranking on the Fortune 500 list of the biggest companies in America.

What worries him? “Trade war talk doesn’t help anyone,” he says, referring to big U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods and tough trade talk between the two countries. Booking has a lot at stake in China where it has a more than a thousand employees working at a dozen companies owned by Booking. Booking also has significant investments in C-Trip, China’s largest online travel agency, and Didi, the country’s popular taxi-hailing service.

For now, Fogel is hopeful that the U.S. and China will reach a trade agreement. “I believe that in the long run it’s in the interest of everybody to help promote more travel, not less travel,” he says. “So I’m not so concerned about it yet.”