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Airbnb sees China as its number one market by 2020
The number of rooms in China ready for rent on Airbnb has reached 150,000, according to a co-founder of the global room sharing platform.
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Millennials driving the new economy with trust
The biggest sectors of the “sharing economy” — including transportation and travel companies like Uber, Zipcar and Airbnb – could be pulling in as much as $335 billion in global revenue by 2025, according to projections by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Continue reading… “Millennials driving the new economy with trust”
How the collaborative economy will change the way we travel
Airbnb doesn’t need to build or own inventory, it facilitates access to existing assets, such as spare rooms, holiday houses, entire islands or treehouses.
At the annual Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals conference (HITEC) in Los Angeles, Rachel Botsman, Founder of Collaborative Labs, talked about how the collaborative economy will transform the hospitality ecosystem. She was talking to a group whose sector was getting hit hard and fast by the ideas she was going to share. How do hoteliers really feel about Airbnb?
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Airbnb tops 10 million guest stays and 550,000 listed properties worldwide
Airbnb is a global marketplace where people can list space in their homes for rent.
How far has Airbnb come? More than 10 million people have stayed in Airbnb homes to date. This is a long way from the company’s early days when the founders hosted people on air mattresses in their apartment and basically went door-to-door to get traction.
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Airbnb helps Hurricane Sandy victims find free temporary housing
Airbnb is living up to its potential as a community-powered hotel. Today they changed their policies to allow do-gooders to offer up their spare spaces free of charge to displaced victims of superstorm Sandy.
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12 Startups with exploding valuations
If Angry Birds keeps its momentum Rovio could become a billion-dollar company.
VCs are pouring money into the next crop of startups after watching startups like Facebook, Zynga, and Groupon explode in valuation.
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