Airbnb CEO Sees the New Age of Mobility Redefining the World of Travel
Photo Credit: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky (right) with Skift founder Rafat Ali discussing the future of travel at Skift Global Forum in New York's TWA Hotel Tuesday evening. Skift
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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky presented his vision for a dramatically changed travel industry of the future. The issue that no one can answer right is how enduring some of these trends will be.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky acknowledged that enough affordable housing is a major challenge but argued that the new flexible nature of work wrought by the pandemic will see people migrating to city corridors and other less-dense locales where residences can be less expensive.
In a fireside chat Tuesday with Skift founder and CEO Rafat Ali at the opening event for Skift Global Forum 2021, Chesky said previously people needed to live in a certain city to work but with remote working taking hold people have more options. [See the video below.]
He said he told a big city mayor recently that cities should think of their citizens as "customers" who can make choices because they can work anywhere.
Conceding that some people may need to work in New York or San Francisco, Chesky
