This Is What Airbnb Trips Hosts Really Think of Airbnb’s Newest Product
Photo Credit: It's been six months since Airbnb launched Trips. Skift spoke to several Trips hosts to ask them for their takes on what it's like to be a tour operator. Airbnb / Airbnb
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Overall, the reviews are positive, but some have found the app to be glitchy at times. The bigger question on our minds: Can this prove to be a moneymaker for both hosts and for Airbnb in the long term?
It's been about six months since Airbnb launched Trips, its formal foray into the tours and activities space. While many industry watchers have pondered whether this was a smart financial move on Airbnb's part, the product itself is still in its early stages, even as Airbnb continues to add more and more Trips in cities around the world.
Originally starting with just 12 cities, Airbnb plans to have Trips available in 51 cities globally by year's end. Trips is the catchall term the company uses to describe the tours and activities it offers: Experiences refer to shorter activities that are only for one day, while Immersions refer to longer, multi-day tours.
Most recently, the company added Trips to cities that include Shanghai, New York City (Harlem for now), and Singapore. And there are also Trips now that offer more intimate music and concert experiences as well.
To date, there are now more than 800 Experiences to book, an increase of 60 percent since November. Airbnb also s
