Airbnb Eliminates Some Guest Fees and 11 Other Hospitality Trends this Week
Photo Credit: An Airbnb homeshare. The company is making moves into hotel booking. Airbnb
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This week in hospitality, Airbnb begins to alter its business model to be more competitive, wellness brand Six Senses emphasizes that it's not just a spa company, and a hospitality exec explores how artificial intelligence. can make the guest experience more personalized.
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Airbnb Eliminates Some Guest Fees to Take on Booking Holdings: Airbnb is clearly now well down the path toward a host-only fee structure. Chalk it up to its push toward onboarding hotels, which don’t charge guest fees, and Airbnb’s competition with Booking.com, which sees guest fees as unholy.
Airbnb Tests Hotel Integration by Adding Some HotelTonight Partners: It will be tremendously complex for Airbnb to transition from an alternative accommodations site into one that also offers lots of hotels. The coming business model changes and technology challenges will get sorted out, but it will be rocky for quite some ti
