How Airbnb Used Its Community Following Paris Attacks
Photo Credit: Airbnb hosts offered free accommodations following the Paris attacks on the company's Disaster Response page. Airbnb
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Airbnb is evolving as a social network as much as a room sharing platform with services like its new Community Center page, which hosts and guests used right after the Paris attacks.
Upon leaving the Hotel du Nord cafe last Friday night in Paris' trendy Canal St. Martin district, dozens of police cars were streaming into the area two blocks away to cordon off the area around the terrorist attacks at Le Carillon and Le Petit Cambodge restaurants.
Bystanders were fleeing the scene, crying or yelling into their phones, as riot police and medical workers showed up, seemingly not yet fully understanding the scope of what had just happened.
I was in town for the annual Airbnb Open 2015 conference with 5,000 Airbnb hosts visiting to learn about the latest product and service developments at the room sharing company.
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