Airbnb users have added over a million items to their Wish Lists since June
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Airbnb's newest feature has been a hit with users -- the average user adds hearts to four properties a day -- meaning Airbnb is hoping to be users’ first stop when booking their next vacation.
Airbnb released a feature in June called “Wish Lists” allowing its users to add properties to a list of places that they’d like to visit someday. It seems like the feature has caught on, because since its launch, over one million properties have been added to a Wish List.
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