Airbnb to Display Total Prices Up Front and End Checkout Task Drudgery
Airbnb has responded to years'-long criticism about a lack of transparency in the way it displays its prices. Now, will competitors do likewise?
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.
Airbnb Data Says Flexible Search Tools Help Combat Overtourism
Airbnb said that the flexible search features it has rolled out since early 2021 have so far diverted bookings from destinations coping with overtourism and peak travel times, according to…
Airbnb Has Begun to Partly Break Out Its Spending on Brand Marketing
Airbnb executives have talked a lot about how they have reduced their spending on performance marketing (think: buying ads in Google search results) to focus on brand marketing (think: subway…
Airbnb Had a Very, Very Good Quarter
Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast looks at Airbnb’s record quarter, Colorado’s tourism redirect, and Air Asia X’s leadership change.
Airbnb Posts Best Quarter Yet on Relentless Travel Demand
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says his company can thrive in boom and bust cycles if it keeps innovating. To meet that promise, his company will have to boost its pricing competitiveness and makes it easier for individuals to list properties. And make the case to Wall Street on unfair comparisons to 2021.
Upscale Hotels Plant Fake Reviews When High-End Vacation Rentals Come to Town
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. That may be why high-end hotels tend to stop planting fake negative reviews about each other online once nicer short-term rentals start competing locally.
Airbnb to Help Mexico City Lure Digital Nomads With Marketing Site
Mexico City's mayor has signed a deal with Airbnb to help encourage more digital nomads — people working online remotely — to work in the capital city with the help…
Google Expands Its Things to Do Feature Deeper Into Maps
Step by step, inch by inch, Google is becoming more central to the tours and activities sector. We've seen this playbook before.
Reimagining Travel’s Future With Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
Listen in for a discussion from Skift Global Forum featuring the CEOs of Airbnb and Skift.
How Radisson Explains Sustainability to Hotel Guests
Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast looks at Radisson's attempts at transparent sustainability, KLM's challenges in Amsterdam, and Europe's aviation expansion.