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Airbnb Introduces Searches for Different Dates to Show Wider Array of Property Choices

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Dennis Schaal

Photo Credit: An Airbnb rental in Rincon, Puerto Rico as seen in February 2021. Airbnb introduced a way to search for flexible dates of stay to view more options. Skift / Dennis Schaal

Skift Take

Savvy consumers used to searching for hotel stays and seeing how rates change based on alternative dates may be disappointed in this Airbnb feature. That's because it doesn't do precisely that for a specific property. Still, the tweak is a nice twist in short-term rental trip planning.

It's been a busy few days before Airbnb's first earnings call as a public company — it launched a global brand campaign touting hosts, and introduced a flexible date search feature to accommodate price-conscious travelers and digital nomads. The feature, which appears to be novel in the short-term rental industry, is a mixed bag. Hotels, such as Marriott International, as well as airlines and Google Flights, have long enabled consumers to see how the price of their hotel stay or flight would be affected by choosing different dates. Below is how Marriott does it for a specific hotel. You can see that the

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