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STRz podcast 2: Welcome Pickups’ Savvas Georgiou on guest safety
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGreece: Co-founder and product director of Welcome Pickups, Savvas Georgiou, is the guest for Episode Two of the new ShortTermRentalz podcast, in which he talks about heightened attention on guest safety, the incoming automation of the check-in experience and whether or not this period should be seen as a pause or a reset of the […]
Chesky: Airbnb to improve host relations by facilitating “human connections”
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: In an interview with Skift CEO and founder, Rafat Ali, Airbnb co-founder and CEO, Brian Chesky, has outlined how he intends to forge better relations with its hosts to become a facilitator of “human connections”, as well as how the platform will incorporate more extended stays in the future post-pandemic. Speaking on The Long […]
Expedia Group names Kern as CEO and raises $3.2bn in capital
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Expedia Group has named Peter Kern and Eric Hart as its new chief executive and financial officers, taking over from Mark Okerstrom and Alan Pickerill, who both resigned abruptly in December over reported disagreements with the company’s board on strategy. At the same time, the group confirmed through its chairman Barry Diller that it […]