How Homesharing Hit the Corporate Travel Mainstream

During the bulk of its decade-long existence, Airbnb faced an uphill battle getting the corporate travel ecosystem to embrace its homeshare products. Recently, though, the company has made strong inroads through its Airbnb for Work platform, getting travel managers onboard and encouraging hesitant business travelers to give it a try. Earlier this week, Airbnb for Work announced it had integrated Airbnb Experiences and curated lists of meeting-appropriate homes into its business travel booking platform. Bringing increased choice to business travel may have temporarily broken the minds of some travel managers and organizations, but the opportunity for a more authentic business travel experience has come to resonate across the sector. "Choice is a good thing for any individual," said David Holyoke, global head of Airbnb for Work. "You can be a family traveler, you can be a business traveler, you can be a solo individual traveler or travel with friends. You can be a luxury traveler.