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Shortyz Awards introduce Team of the Year category for 2024
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: The Shortyz Awards are introducing a new ‘Team of the Year’ category for 2024, ahead of the holding of the fifth edition of the event in April.
Airbnb issues update on work to fight discrimination
Reading Time: 3 minutesUS: Airbnb has issued an update on its work to fight discrimination and build inclusion among its community of guests and hosts.
Airbnb sets revised diversity goals
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Airbnb says it is going to improve diversity in its ranks because it “is nowhere near satisfied with the status quo”. By the end of 2025, Airbnb is aiming for 20 per cent of its US workforce to be “underrepresented minorities”, up from the current 12 per cent. Its second goal is to increase […]
STRz podcast: 2020: The Year of Change? Part Two
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWorldwide: In Part Two of this podcast special for ShortTermRentalz, we interviewed four business leaders from ethnic minority backgrounds to discuss how diversity and equality within the short-term rental and wider hospitality space will be addressed this year and beyond. The speakers were: Philip Kennard, CEO of Futurestay Nina Taylor, founder and CEO of The […]
STRz podcast: 2020 – The Year of Change? Part One
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWorldwide: In this podcast special for ShortTermRentalz, we interviewed not one but four speakers from ethnic minority backgrounds, who are all founders or hold senior positions within their companies in the short-term rental industry, to discuss how diversity and equality within the short-term rental and wider hospitality space will be addressed this year and beyond. […]
Calls for greater inclusion in companies backed by industry leaders
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Expedia Group has teamed up with PhocusWire to launch its latest whitepaper on diversity and inclusion in the travel and tourism industry. Among the key findings, the whitepaper reveals that 54 per cent of women make up the global tourism workforce compared to 39 per cent in the broader economy. And yet, many still struggle to […]
Airbnb hires head of diversity and belonging
Reading Time: 2 minutesWorldwide: Airbnb has appointed Melissa Thomas-Hunt in the role of head of global diversity and belonging. Thomas-Hunt, who is leaving her position as Vanderbilt University’s vice provost for inclusive excellence, will relocate from Nashville, Tennessee, to San Francisco to join Airbnb in its push for greater workforce diversity. She will be tasked with the mandate […]