Airbnb CEO on Travel's Marketing Funnel and Other Top Stories This Week


Brian Chesky at Skift Global Forum 2021

Skift Take

In Skift's top stories this week, Airbnb believes its rivals have the travel marketing funnel all wrong, hostel brand Generator is targeting cities lacking affordable hostels and Tunisia is broadening its tourism branding with help from the U.S.

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky Says Competitors Have the Travel Marketing Funnel All Wrong: The so-called travel marketing funnel for Booking Holdings and Expedia has indeed been a sieve. Domestic trips and remote work have propelled accommodations to a higher position in trip plans. (Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky will be a featured speaker at Skift Global Forum on Wed