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Airbnb hosts claim lack of payments from $250 million relief fund
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Many Airbnb hosts are complaining that they have been unable to access relief funds promised by the company. Airbnb created a $250 million relief fund for hosts to access earlier, in order to help their community weather the current global pandemic. CNBC noted that hundreds who had applied for the available funding had yet […]
AirDNA report: How mid-term stays may rescue the short-term sector
Reading Time: 2 minutesBarcelona: A report published by global short-term rental data firm AirDNA reveals that mid-term stays might represent the key to the recovery of the vacation rental sector. Pivoting from its ‘short-term’ roots, 50 per cent of nights booked globally on short-term rental platform Airbnb have been for stays of over two weeks. In March, travel […]
LuggageHero pre-registers 1500+ potential investors in fundraising campaign
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCopenhagen: Luggage storage network LuggageHero has announced it has pre-registered more than 1,500 potential investors for its upcoming crowd-sourced fundraising campaign through the Seedrs platform, with the first thousand signing up within 24 hours. As the result, the company says it is bucking the trend by showing that investing in travel startups is not over during these […]