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Airbnb's Buy of Luxury Retreats Is Latest of a Dozen Acquisitions

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Dennis Schaal

Photo Credit: One of Airbnb's more interesting acquisitions was of Spain's Trip4real as a way of jumpstarting Airbnb's attractions business. Trip4real

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As a growing company with global ambitions and a $3 billion stockpile, Airbnb wants to buy stuff. You can expect that more acquisitions are on the way as Airbnb expects to branch out into related sectors.

Airbnb has been a fairly acquisitive company in its more than eight years of existence and today it made its biggest splash, buying upscale vacation rental site Luxury Retreats for an estimated $200 million to $300 million. That makes at least a dozen companies that Airbnb has acquired since 2011. And those are the ones we know about. As a private company, Airbnb doesn't need to publicize everything it has bought, especially if some of the acquisitions are smaller in scope. Some 12

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