How the Sharing Economy Is Impacting Events — Skift MeetingsIQ
2016 is going to be the hump year when sharing companies move from the cheap seats of the meetings industry to center stage.
Airbnb News
What started as AirBedandBreakfast.com has grown into a massive public company that IPOd in 2020. Airbnb is now the world’s largest online alternative-accommodation community, allowing millions of users to list, search, and rent authentic homestays and vacation-rental experiences in countless cities across the globe.
How Airbnb is Quietly Positioning Itself to Disrupt the Meetings Industry
More meeting planners are considering Airbnb as a viable accommodation option, based on new partnerships and programs that dramatically increase the value proposition for themselves, their clients, and their attendees.
Interview: San Francisco Tourism CEO on Getting in Bed With Airbnb
San Francisco is at the forefront of showing how tourism bureaus, which rely on hotel bed taxes for funding, can collaborate with room-sharing companies that are in direct competition with hotels.
Measuring Airbnb’s Real Threat to U.S. Hotels Using Industry Metrics
More data on Airbnb's business will hopefully give the industry greater insight into how it really fits into the evolving hospitality ecosystem.
Airbnb CTO and 3 Tech CEOs Discuss the Digital Platform Economy at Davos
This mashup of leaders in travel, media, commerce, and IT represents the cross-industry synergies fueling the rise of the digital platform economy. It also represents the growing link between smart city development and tourism, which is going to explode in 2016.
4 Charts Showing How Uber and Airbnb Are Surging in Business Travel
Business travelers in the U.S. are now taking more rides in Ubers than rental cars. This is huge progress for Uber and represents a major problem for traditional car rental companies.
Airbnb Data Highlights From Penn State’s Year-Long Host Study
We can't wait until Airbnb goes public so we can finally get some transparency and stop hearing about hosts trying to make ends meet. It's so much more sophisticated than that.
Will Booking.com Alter Its Vacation Rental Business Model in 2016?
It is very attractive for Booking.com to abstain from charging travelers a booking fee on vacation rentals. But the lack thereof means Booking.com's commissions may not be competitive and shareholders will likely demand that Booking.com maximize the revenue opportunity and impose the booking fee.
Airbnb Reaches Out to Big Landlords to Share Their Tenants’ Spoils
Airbnb, in theory, could ease some cities' opposition to its business by giving landlords a revenue share of their tenants' rentals. It's an interesting idea, albeit with tons of hurdles.
Airbnb Set to Top One Million Guests in a Single Night on New Year’s Eve
The 10 most popular cities for Airbnb rentals on New Year's Eve account for about 27% of total guests.