Airbnb is expanding from a short-term rental service to a full-scale travel agency. The San Francisco-based company upended the hotel business by letting homeowners and leasers rent out rooms and houses. Now, it’s trying to do the same for the travel and tourist industries. The new initiative is called Airbnb Trips, and it now provides the company a way to offer an experience instead of an accommodation. This could a be class or lesson in an obscure subject like ramen making in Tokyo, or a day trip to a secret surfing location in Malibu.
“If you want to have an amazing trip, you end up basically on a research project,” says CEO Brian Chesky, who announced the news onstage today at the company’s annual Airbnb Open conference in Los...
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