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How Airbnb changes may transform online booking space

Airbnb is on a blitz as of late, announcing major product changes, wooing hotels, and drawing the battle lines against the OTAs all within the span of a few months. […]

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ComicCon: Hotel Industry Vs. Airbnb War Over ‘Price Gouging’

Comic-Con in San Diego is the annual convention where people celebrate comics and cosplay as their favorite characters. It is also emerging as an unlikely battleground in the war between […]

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Expedia and Priceline battle the digital duopoly

An older gentleman stands in front of a temple in Siem Reap, Cambodia, gazing up in wonder as sunlight glints off his white hair and wizened face. As he begins […]

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Combat Airbnb Effect on your Hotel’s Bottom Line

Recently Airbnb announced the formation of a technology partnership with SiteMinder, a cloud-based channel management platform used by more than 28,000 hotels around the world. Now, hotels that use SiteMinder […]

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Airbnb And Parity: What Hoteliers Need To Know

Airbnb are never far away from the headlines, but the homesharing giants have been outdoing themselves in 2018. Alongside a plethora of announcements made at the end of February, including […]

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Why Airbnb is taking some lessons in hospitality from the hotel industry

The experience of staying in an Airbnb listing is simultaneously an argument for and against the platform. On the one hand, every space is unique and quirky; on the other […]

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San Francisco: A leaner vacation rentals market

Under the threat of huge penalties, Airbnb, HomeAway, FlipKey and others have jettisoned hosts who ignored the city’s registration requirement for short-term rentals. That’s dramatically revamped the universe of listings, […]

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Airbnb: As professionals find success is there still room for sharers?

Ask Harvey Hernandez about his upcoming real estate project in Kissimmee, Florida, and he’ll respond with the easy charm and outsized boasts endemic to his industry. The 324-unit complex near […]

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Airbnb Struggles to Balance Its Past and Future

Homesharing is how Airbnb got its start, with a couple of air mattresses on the floor of the San Francisco apartment CEO Brian Chesky and co-founder Joe Gebbia shared back […]

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Airbnb Squares Up To Fight Traditional Hotels On Their Turf

Having established itself over the last nine years as the leading platform for people to rent short-term lodging from apartment rooms to luxury homes, Airbnb has announced it is now […]

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