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Business travel boost for Airbnb with Urbandoor acquisition
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Airbnb has acquired extended stay accommodation platform Urbandoor, for an undisclosed sum. San Francisco-based Urbandoor was founded in 2015 by Erik Eccles, Benjamin Renaud, and Zack Chandler in 2015. It offers units in multifamily buildings to corporate travellers, and its portfolio includes buildings in more than 1,500 cities in over 60 countries. Co-founder Erik […]
Changing corporate attitudes to rentals: AllTheRooms CEO Joe DiTomaso
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Joe DiTomaso, CEO and co-founder of AllTheRooms, talks to ShortTermRentalz about changing corporate attitudes to short-term rentals and how property managers and owners are targeting business travellers.
Roomzzz COO Robert Alley on the role of Airbnb in the business travel market
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRoomzzz Aparthotels COO Robert Alley explains the role of short-term rental platforms like Airbnb in the global business travel market at the Business Travel Show.
Extended stay provider BridgeStreet expands offer to include vacation rental units
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: BridgeSteet has expanded its offer to business travellers to include options such as vacation rentals, hostels and hotels. The company says its new Six Ways to Stay booking platform provides “easy access to trusted, global accommodations across both traditional and alternative hospitality experiences in a single, easy-to-use user experience”. BridgeStreet has traditionally been a […]
Airbnb for Work branching into Australia’s corporate travel market
Reading Time: 2 minutesAustralia: Airbnb is closing in on the fastest growing travel market in Australia. Corporate trips have seen major growth in Australia’s travel sector, jumping by 11 per cent to 21.3 million travellers in the 12 months to March 2018 according to Tourism Research Australia data. Business travellers’ expenditure also increased by six per cent to […]
STRz at CHPA2018: Scott Shatford, AirDNA
Reading Time: < 1 minute AirDNA CEO Scott Shatford tells SAN about Airbnb’s impact on the business travel sector. Filmed at the 2018 CHPA conference in Las Vegas.
MagicStay adds onefinestay apartments to its portfolio
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFrance: Paris-based apartment rental platform for business travellers MagicStay is expanding its offering by distributing onefinestay apartments. The onefinestay inventory will be added to MagicStay’s Signature range, which features “a selection of upscale and design apartments, managed by professional agencies that pay particular attention to the quality of hospitality and services offered”. More than 1,000 homes from […]