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.

Online Travel

New Trends Report: Venture Investment Trends in the Travel Industry

Discover what type of travel startups attract venture capital funding, see where smart money is going, and understand some of the common mistakes that startups make as they seek funding and strive to build their new businesses.

Dennis Schaal | 10 years ago

Hotels

New York Magazine's Airbnb Feature: The Best Quotes

Silicon Valley startups aren't used to critical press coverage and sometimes it shows.

Jason Clampet | 10 years ago

Hotels

New York Community and Political Leaders Target Airbnb's Marketing Machine

By focusing on illegal hotels, the coalition may have a good rallying cry, but it doesn't capture how quickly short-term rentals have evolved into something much more sophisticated.

Jason Clampet | 10 years ago

Hotels

Russia's Ostrovok Adds Airbnb, Makes Misleading 'Biggest' Claim

In the short term, we'll probably see a divide between the booking (Ostrovok.ru) and metasearch sites (Hipmunk) that will partner with Airbnb, and the more conservative ones that won't. The holdouts will eventually come around.

Dennis Schaal | 10 years ago

Hotels

Airbnb's CEO Explains the Sharing Economy to Stephen Colbert

Chesky's appearance no doubt had Uber CEO Travis Kalanick asking his PR team why the Airbnb kid got to do Colbert before he did.

Jason Clampet | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Uber, Lyft and Airbnb Are Winning the App Download Battle

Uber and Lyft have the advantage that they are travel apps that, like Google Maps, many people use every day. More travel apps should find a way to be relevant more often.

Dan Peltier | 11 years ago

Hotels

6 Ways Airbnb Changed Travel and the Vacation Rental Industry

Airbnb has been a true disruptor in travel, and we'll continue to keep a close watch as it matures into a broader industry player.

Jason Clampet | 11 years ago

Business Travel

Business Travel and Sharing Collide as Airbnb and Uber Ink Deals with Concur

Concur has done an excellent job in recent years thinking about what the business traveler needs to do their job better rather than focusing on putting the travel manager first. This is simply the next logical step.

Jason Clampet | 11 years ago

Hotels

Changing of the Guard as Airbnb, TripAdvisor and HomeAway Join Travel Tech Trade Group

The entrance of Airbnb, TripAdvisor and HomeAway into the ranks of the heretofore online travel agency-dominated Travel Technology Association is a sign of the sharing-economy times, and will give the newbies added clout when the butt heads with local regulators.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Hotels

Skift Survey: More People Actually Prefer the New Airbnb Logo to the Old One

Lesson: Always look beyond the signals emanating from early adopters on Twitter.

Rafat Ali | 11 years ago