Airbnb Expands Experiences Into Multiday Adventures
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Give Airbnb credit for sticking to its blueprint by offering Airbnb Adventures in its own image, avoiding typical mainstream expeditions. Whether this will develop into a reliable service and big business for the homesharing company will be proven on Colorado cliffs and at Galapagos coffee farms.
Two-and-a-half years after debuting Airbnb Experiences, Airbnb is putting itself into direct competition with traditional tour operators with the launch of a multiday tour service called Airbnb Adventures.
In its announcement Thursday about the expansion of its single-day tours, Airbnb Experiences, the company pointed to examples of Airbnb Adventures, including a three-day trip tracking lions with Samburu warriors in Kenya ($515 per person); a six-day Slow Food Safari in the Galapagos ($3,500); a five-day Mystical Oman Trek ($1,000), and camping on a cliff overnight in Colorado ($1,000).
These tours do not include flights.
In contrast to single-day Experiences, most of the multiday Airbnb Adventures are run by local tour operators.
"Adventure itineraries hosted on the platform are either entirely exclusive to Airbnb or provided by local operators that are not typically found on any other major booking platform," an Airbnb spokeswoman said.
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