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Airbnb is not a first-mover in AI launches. That's OK: Kayak wasn't a first-mover in metasearch. The issue isn't necessarily timing, but whether Airbnb can offer AI products that are better than its rivals.
Airbnb and Booking.com charge no guest fees. But Vrbo has stated that it will keep guest fees, although the amounts will be flexible. That lack of specificity will stoke host anger because this gives hosts little visibility into the actual prices their guests will have to pay.
On Monday's Good Morning Hospitality, A Skift Podcast, Brandreth Canaley, Michael Goldin, and Jamie Lane recap sessions from Skift Global Forum that every STR operator should be paying attention to.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky didn't address at length his changing views about Airbnb experiences, but there, too, he's softened his old religion about them having to be unique, and has added mainstream tours and activities.
Major experiences players market to travelers, not locals. Can Airbnb be the exception to the rule?
Although the list does not entail economic sanctions, these companies are usually the subject of boycotts or disinvestments to pressure Israel for the expansion of settlements in the territory that houses more than three million Palestinians. This time 61 companies were added, such as the Israeli pesticide manufacturer Adama, belonging to the Chinese group Syngenta, or the Spanish Salvat Logística, which joined Airbnb or Expidia, which were already on the list.
Airbnb has talked for years about becoming an AI concierge. Now Brian Chesky has put a 2027 date on it — and he says the interface won’t look like a typical chatbot.
Sponsored listings could be significantly disrupted — or they will evolve to account for AI agents.
It's shaping up to be Airbnb's biggest new business. Hotel operators who've joined are liking the new customer pool so far. But how long can it stay exclusive?
Uber has frequency and Airbnb has travel intent; their expansion into hotels will show which advantage travels further.
The New York house where the president lived until he was four years old was rented with the Republican's' trading 'and then an abandoned time passed. Now an anonymous family has bought it.
Mexico lives an unprecedented tourist boom: in 2025 it received about 100 million visitors and was consolidated among the most visited countries in the world. But behind the record figures are new challenges: the pressure on the environment, the saturation of destinations such as Cancun and the Maya Riviera, the risk of gentification, the regulation of platforms such as Airbnb and the safety of travellers. While the authorities seek to decentralize the activity and promote more sustainable tourism.
