Airbnb CEO Vows to Bring New Focus to Experiences
Photo Caption: Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky (left) spoke with Skift founder Rafat Ali at Skift Global Forum in Manhattan November 21, 2022.
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Airbnb's Brian Chesky may be over-estimating how many people will work from home in the future "glued" to their laptop screens. But the world has changed — for sure — and travel patterns have been altered as well, with new demand for experiences.
Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said travel experts and analysts underestimate travel's potential, and that the industry would soon witness a new "golden age of travel."
Fueling part of the trend, he argued, is that an estimated 50 percent of U.S. workers could potentially labor on their laptops from home, and they would travel to get out of the house, and seek human connections.
Chesky termed it a "dystopian" risk to people to remain glued to their screens all their day, and they will leave their homes to travel and combat loneliness. And they won't merely be traveling to places such as Las Vegas, Rome and Paris, but would venture out to som
