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| 10.05.2025 | Europa League final: Tottenham and Man United fans face price gouging | Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United fans keen to attend the Europa League final later this month face eye-watering flight, match ticket and hotel costs.
All remaining seats on direct return flights from London or Manchester to Bilbao, w... |
| 13.02.2025 | India's Solo Travelers on Airbnb Take the Spotlight this Valentine's Day Weekend, with Dubai as the top Destination | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Airbnb witnessed an increase of over 185% in searches by Indian solo travelers
Dubai emerges as the top choice for Indian travelers across solo, duo and group travel categories, showcasing remarkable growth in pop... |
| 03.12.2024 | Rejuvenate Your Mind, Body and Soul at These Airbnbs in India | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
As the New Year approaches, it’s time to rejuvenate, reflect, and recharge for the year ahead. What better way to embrace 2025 than by escaping to a tranquil Airbnb stay that offers the perfect balance of wellness... |
| 02.05.2024 | Want to spend the night in a Paris museum or a house owned by Prince? Airbnb plans to list them | In a mad mix of game-show glitter and marketing flash, Airbnb is offering customers a chance to spend a night in a Paris museum, stay in houses mocked up to look like movie settings, or sleep surrounded by eight Ferrari racing cars.
Those a... |
| 07.09.2023 | A Peek into Avneet Kaur's European and London Sojourn with Airbnb | Delhi, India
Avneet Kaur, beloved Indian actor admired for her captivating performances and radiant charm, stepped away from the glitz and glamour of the entertainment world and embarked on a soul-enriching expedition to explore the cultura... |
| 19.07.2023 | 40% прибыли на инвестициях в недвижку – собирайте сливки, пока другие не верят | Мечта любого инвестора – нащупать никому не понятный рынок, который вот-вот взлетит, и первым в него вложиться. У 11 инвесторов эта мечта уже стала реальностью. Как это возможно? Перу, амазонские джунгли, аутентичный wellness-resort, работа... |
| 20.04.2023 | Letting Cloud Acquisition by Airbnb Unveiled as a Hoax | On April 11, following the circulation of a press release, a story claiming that Scottish proptech firm Letting Cloud had been acquired by US holiday rental company Airbnb began appearing throughout various news outlets, including DIGIT.
So... |
| 16.04.2023 | An artist turned a studio that's 18 feet high into a tiny home and rents it on Airbnb for $112 a night | The studio is in Castleton, Ontario. Sheree Rasmussen
Sheree Rasmussen repurposed an artist's studio that her late partner built into a tiny home rental.
She wanted to honor his life by letting others enjoy the space while making money on A... |
| 11.04.2023 | Scottish Proptech Letting Cloud Acquired by Airbnb | Scottish proptech firm Letting Cloud has been acquired by US holiday rental company Airbnb.
The Edinburgh-based property portal has been trading for four years since being set up by tech entrepreneur Grant MacCusker in 2019 to provide the m... |
| 12.03.2023 | You can stay in this 'delightfully quirky' tiny home in a remote part of Scotland that looks like a submarine tower | The Pilot House is located in one of the most remote parts of Scotland. Nigel Rigden
A husband-and-wife duo based the structure of their two-story tiny home on a military submarine.
The elliptical Pilot House is available to rent on Airbnb ... |
| 18.10.2022 | A 25-year-old built a 'tiny hotel' in Texas that's generated $500,000 in bookings this year. Check out the $3.1 million property. | At left, Isaac French. At right, Lakeside South, one of the seven tiny-house cabins. Right: Corey O'Connell
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Isaac French grew up working in his dad's construction business and always loved design.
He moved to Waco, Texas, in 2020... |
| 18.09.2022 | Travelers are slamming Airbnb chore lists that tell guests to mow the lawn, do the laundry, and take out the trash — on top of paying $125 cleaning fees | A Southern Hands Cleaning employee works inside a short-term rental in Boston. David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
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Some Airbnb hosts are charging cleaning fees and asking guests to complete a list of chores.
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| 22.07.2022 | Airbnb will up its maximum penalty for hosts who cancel last-minute from $100 to $1,000 | Airbnb is changing its cancellation fee policy for hosts from August 22.
Hosts who cancel reservations last-minute could face a fee of up to $1,000.
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| 31.05.2022 | 10 Things in Tech: Twilight of the tech gods | Welcome back from the long weekend. Silicon Valley's biggest luminaries are in for a rude awakening — we explain it all below.
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| 18.01.2022 | Airbnb is looking for someone to live rent-free in a ‘€1’ house in Sambuca for a year | (Supplied)
Airbnb is seeking applicants for a gig to stay rent-free in a renovated "€1" house in Sambuca, Italy, for a year.
You have to rent out at least one room on Airbnb – but you get to keep the cash.
Partners and kids are we... |
| 04.12.2021 | Divorced dad promised son they'd live in a castle one day — so he built 3 and now welcomes guests | Lavender II fulfilled a promise to his son Jason and went even further to build three castles.
Courtesy of Highlands Castle
In 1978, a newly divorced father promised his three-year-old son he'd build him a castle one day.
Today, John Lavend... |
| 25.11.2021 | A divorced New York dad promised his son they’d live in a castle one day — so he built 3, and now anyone can visit | Lavender II fulfilled a promise to his son Jason and went even further to build three castles. Courtesy of Highlands Castle
In 1978, a newly divorced father promised his 3-year-old son he’d build him a castle one day.
Today, John Lavender I... |
| 09.11.2021 | Airbnb boosts host protection, adds Wi-Fi speed verification | Last night, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky took to Twitter to share what he’s seeing in the company’s data. The broad strokes version was that the pandemic-induced flexibility in our work lives has allowed more people to travel during the week, an... |
| 18.09.2021 | TAKE A LOOK | Couple converted a bendy bus into family home for their toddler and newborn baby | Nick and Emma Hill with their eldest child at The Bus Hideaway in Tasmania, Australia.
Emma Hill (@thebushideaway)
A couple bought a 1985 articulated bus and turned it into a mobile home for their family.
Emma and Nick bought the 18-meter b... |
| 17.09.2021 | A couple converted a $6,000 bendy bus into a family home for their toddler and newborn baby. Take a look inside. | Nick and Emma Hill with their eldest child at The Bus Hideaway in Tasmania, Australia. Emma Hill (@thebushideaway)
A couple bought a 1985 articulated bus and turned it into a mobile home for their family.
Emma and Nick bought the 18-meter b... |
| 13.09.2021 | A 9-year-old designed his own dream treehouse with a zip line and trampoline, and rents it out on Airbnb | Eli’s Treehouse, an Airbnb rental in North Carolina, and its 9-year-old designer Eli Sylvester. Rachel Sylvester/Airbnb
A 9-year-old boy partly funded and designed a treehouse that his mother rents out on Airbnb.
Eli Sylvester started a cra... |
| 13.09.2021 | A 9-year-old in US designed own dream treehouse with zip line, trampoline, and rents it out on Airbnb | Eli's Treehouse, an Airbnb rental in North Carolina, and its 9-year-old designer Eli Sylvester.
Rachel Sylvester/Airbnb
A 9-year-old boy partly funded and designed a treehouse that his mother rents out on Airbnb.
Eli Sylvester started a cra... |
| 25.07.2021 | A 3D-printed concrete tiny home is now on Airbnb – see what it’s like to stay inside the $130 per-night house | The Fibonacci House. Twente Additive Manufacturing
Take a tour of the Fibonacci House, a 3D-printed concrete tiny home that’s now available on Airbnb.
The home was designed, created, and sold by a Dutch company, Twente Additive Manufacturin... |
| 26.03.2021 | Staycation 2021: Best Handpicked Holiday Lets From Lakeside Cottages And Houseboats To Treehouses | A cabin in Oban, Scotland is part of Kip Hideways' portfolioKip Hideaways |
| 17.03.2021 | Weird and wonderful Airbnb places within an hour of London | The starting pistol has been fired on domestic holidays, with less than a month until the 12 April opening up of restrictions. And with so much pent up demand for being anywhere apart from one’s own home, there looks set to be a surge in de... |
| 05.11.2020 | 25 Ways To Make & Save Money During Lockdown | Getty |
| 05.11.2020 | Pivoting in the pandemic, Citysocializer relaunches as a ‘Get Your Guide for virtual events’ | Citysocializer, previously a platform for promoting real-world socializing in cities, has relaunched, becoming something akin to a “Get Your Guide for virtual events”. Just as other startups have pivoted to ‘lean in” to current circumstance... |
| 13.09.2020 | UK Department Stores Signal A New Era For Fashion And Furniture Retail | Selfridges have launched a new initiative 'Project Earth' committing to change the way we shop by ... [+] 2025.Matt Writtle |
| 02.08.2020 | The ultimate guide to career success during a recession: How to find a new job, land a raise, and build your résumé, even when the economy goes south | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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The coronavirus recession is the worst we've seen in a long time, with unemployment exceeding even the figures from the Great Re... |
| 17.09.2019 | For One Night Only: Stay At The Real Downton Abbey On Airbnb | With the film hitting big screens around the world following the enormous success of the British TV series, fans of Downton Abbey are now being invited to “sleep in one of the Castle’s iconic bedrooms and get the opportunity to live like th... |
| 09.09.2019 | Sifted partners with Jobbio to help startups find top talent | Sifted is partnering with hiring platform Jobbio to give readers access to career opportunities in some of Europe’s top startups and tech companies.
Dublin-based Jobbio has over 6,000 companies on its platform from giants Airbnb and Slack t... |
| 05.04.2019 | Airbnb guest found hidden surveillance camera by scanning Wi-Fi network | Enlarge / Close-up of a camera lens.
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| 04.02.2019 | 2nd Address picks up $10M from GV, Foundation to take on Airbnb in business travel | As Airbnb adds more features to court business users, a smaller startup has raised some funding to challenge it in the $18 billion business travel market. 2nd Address, an Airbnb-style platform for business travellers looking for home rental... |
| 07.12.2018 | Airbnb says it has paid $1 billion in local taxes on behalf of hosts since 2014 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Peer-to-peer lodging marketplace Airbnb announced that is has now collected $1 billion in taxes on behalf of hosts over the past four a... |
| 07.12.2018 | Airbnb says it has paid $1 billion in local taxes on behalf of hosts since 2014 | Peer-to-peer lodging marketplace Airbnb announced that is has now collected $1 billion in taxes on behalf of hosts over the past four and a half years.
After a lengthy fight against local authorities’ efforts to get it to serve as tax colle... |
| 06.11.2018 | Scotland Should ‘Worry Less About Technical Knowledge’ | The Centre for Work-based Learning (CWBL) is urging Scotland’s workers, current and future, to worry less about academic achievement and technical knowledge, and focus more on metaskills.
The CWBL’s stark message is being shared with more t... |
| 06.08.2018 | Airbnb for Work claims 700,000 businesses as bookings tripled for second year in a row | Business travelers are increasingly ditching hotels and flocking to Airbnb, according to data revealed today by the home-sharing platform.
Airbnb announced that bookings made through its Airbnb for Work program, which was recently rebranded... |
| 06.08.2018 | Airbnb for Work claims 700,000 businesses as bookings tripled for second year in a row | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Business travelers are increasingly ditching hote... |
| 26.06.2018 | Airbnb courts sublets with Century 21 partnership in France | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Airbnb has become something of a poster child for the “sharing economy,” having grown from its simple “air mattress and cereal” promise... |
| 26.06.2018 | Airbnb courts sublets with Century 21 partnership in France | Airbnb has become something of a poster child for the “sharing economy,” having grown from its simple “air mattress and cereal” promise in 2008 to become a home rental powerhouse a decade later.
The San Francisco-based startup has raised mo... |
| 26.01.2018 | 100 under-the-radar beaches everyone should visit in their lifetime | raditya / Shutterstock
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Whether you've only spent a handful of days on the sand in your life or you're a full-blown sunseeker, there are plenty of breathtaking beaches on this planet waiting to be discovered.
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| 12.01.2018 | Open Banking Legislation: Fintech Sector Responds | The introduction of Open Banking legislation is designed to establish a more streamlined, customer-centric future for personal banking. Open Banking will offer consumers an unparalleled degree of control over their finances and data, whilst... |
| 11.12.2017 | Stunning ryokans & yurts are booming on Airbnb | Gone are the days of boxy hotel rooms. Even Airbnb's stylish apartments are being given a run for their money. |
| 12.04.2017 | How to Go On a Proper Summer Holiday for Under £200 | (Top photo: smartkiwiguy, via)
Oh my GOD this COUNTRY. It's trash! It's a garbage heap! Like, discount for a moment the people in this country – the bad, bad, bad, terrible people; erase them from this picture. This country? This country is... |
| 09.03.2017 | Airbnb closes $1B round at $31B valuation, profitable as of 2H 2016, no plans for IPO | After the vacation marketplace Airbnb last year filed SEC forms raising $555.5 million, today the company filed a new form D that has closed off its Series F with an additional $447.8 million, bringing the total to more than $1 billion — or... |
| 08.03.2017 | Working Together to Defeat Bias and Discrimination in the Sharing Economy | Uncovering racial bias
One of the major debates surrounding the sharing economy industry in 2016 was the academic research paper coming out of Harvard Business School underpinning racial discrimination on platforms like Airbnb. The research... |
| 14.02.2017 | The Cheapest Ways To Travel To The World's Most Expensive Places | |
| 20.07.2016 | Неизвестный Airbnb: сервисы от компании для пользователей, бизнеса и разработчиков Статьи редакции | Редакция студии мобильной разработки Live Typing написала материал о сервисах, которыми располагает компания Airbnb, помимо основного продукта — сервиса по аренде жилья.
Среди них — сервисы и библиотеки для предпринимателей, маркетологов и ... |
| 11.05.2016 | Activists at Disrupt protest Airbnb over listings in Israeli settlements | Airbnb is under fire for allowing hosts on its platform to list homes in Israel’s occupied territories. And today the issue became the subject of a protest at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York, after one of its board members too... |
| 04.01.2016 | In cyberspace, sharing doesn’t always mean caring | - |
| 15.11.2015 | Paris attacks: Facebook’s Safety Check tool used by four million people during French terrorist attack and millions more turned to Twitter | |
| 10.11.2015 | Airbnb Working On ‘Experience Card’: Preloaded $1K MasterCard + Rewards Program | While Airbnb href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2015/11/03/prop-f/">dukes it out with local regulators and fights off encroaching rivals, the company continues to look at ways of increasing the margins that it makes around its a... |
| 05.08.2015 | What does the future hold for the “sharing economy”? | The sharing economy could bring about the end of capitalism: that’s the provocative claim made by economic journalist Paul Mason, among others. But my ongoing research indicates that there are many possible futures for the sharing economy: ... |
| 03.08.2015 | Should we love Uber and Airbnb or protest against them? | An angry crowd has attacked Uber cars with bars and stones outside Mexico City airport, the latest in a series of worldwide protests against the ride-hailing app. More than 1,000 taxi drivers blocked streets in Rio de Janeiro a few days ago... |
| 17.07.2015 | Surge in Airbnb for business trips as travellers prefer flat rentals to hotels | |
| 28.06.2015 | Onefinestay, A High-End Airbnb Rival, Confirms $40M Raise From Intel Capital, Hyatt And More | As Airbnb closes in on a major round of financing that will reportedly value it at $24 billion, smaller startups riffing on the same model of renting out private homes are also heating up.
Onefinestay, a five year-old business out of London... |
| 25.02.2015 | Airbnb’s first mobile carrier deal: App to be preinstalled on Deutsche Telekom in 13 European markets | Deutsche Telekom — German telecom giant and T-Mobile’s parent company — has announced a deal with Airbnb that will see the peer-to-peer property rental app preinstalled on Android devices in 13 European markets.
Airbnb will be installed on ... |
| 25.02.2015 | Airbnb’s first mobile carrier deal: App to be preinstalled on Deutsche Telekom in 13 European markets | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Deutsche Telekom — German telecom giant and T-Mob... |
| 17.02.2015 | An Airbnb for washing machines? How to achieve a circular economy | Every year massive amounts of valuable resources are deemed “waste” and consigned to landfill. Take the UK – around 540 million tonnes of products and materials enter the country annually, but only 117 million tonnes are recycled.
However i... |
| 27.01.2015 | You can now sleep in a Tesla Model S on Airbnb | |
| 06.01.2015 | Putting Britain at the Heart of the Sharing Economy – Gerard Grech | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
The sharing economy is one of the most exciting markets to have emerged from the growth of Britain’s digital economy. From travel to pet ownership — it is reaching into many p... |
| 06.01.2015 | Gerard Grech: Putting Britain at the heart of the sharing economy | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
The sharing economy is one of the most exciting markets to have emerged from the growth of Britain’s digital economy. From travel to pet ownership — it is reaching into many p... |
| 18.12.2014 | Airbnb’s tax-collecting duties extend to Europe, Amsterdam-based hosts to pay from February | San Francisco and Portland were among the first U.S. cities to impose hotel-style taxes on Airbnb hosts, with San Jose set to join soon. Now, however, Airbnb is gearing up to start playing the role of tax collector in its first European cit... |
| 16.12.2014 | Airbnb now caters more to business travelers internationally, starting with the U.K. and Australia | Earlier this year, Airbnb launched a new online service specifically for business travelers, including a centralized portal for managing all facets of a trip. It basically lets employees search for and book accommodation, with special consi... |
| 29.09.2014 | Why Digital Businesses Need to Become Growth Hackers | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Morgan Brown of Qualaroo – the organisers behind the Growth Hacking Conference in London on 28 October – gives TCUK the lowdown.
Over the past decade, the world of digital ma... |
| 18.09.2014 | New Exchange SFOX Aims to Find Traders the Best Bitcoin Price | One of the remarkable – and perhaps most confusing – aspects of bitcoin is the fact that every bitcoin exchange seems to have a different price for the cryptocurrency.
Of course, no two exchanges are ever alike because they all serve differ... |
| 28.08.2013 | World Economic Forum names YC alums Airbnb and Codecademy as 2013 Technology Pioneers | Airbnb, Codecademy and Nest Labs feature among the 36 firms recognized this year as Technology Pioneers by the World Economic Forum.
The new “champions” were nominated by the public, Forum members, constituents and collaborators for their ... |
| - | The Past & The Future of New Businesses. | Over the past 20 years we have seen a boom in startups following the same trends and in similar industries. This was a result of opportunities arising from the changes in society, new discoveries and the adoption of new technologies that be... |
| - | A 32-year-old with 2 Airbnbs says his key to success was hiring a 'cohost' who takes care of all the hard work. Here's how he makes $2,000 a month in passive revenue. | Paul Müller. Getty Images / SOPA Images /Thomas Fluegge / Collage: Dominik Schmitt / Paul Müller / This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| - | I bought a $54,000 abandoned house in Japan and turned it into a luxury Airbnb—take a look inside | Anton Wormann, 32, has always had a passion for DIY projects and creating beautiful spaces. So, after he discovered that his neighbor’s property had been abandoned, he decided to purchase it and bring it back to life.
Upon inspection, Worma... |
| - | Airbnb hosts say they're fed up with how the vacation-rental platform treats them and favors guests. Some are planning to 'strike' or even quit Airbnb altogether. | One of Airbnb host Ryan Villines' listings in Great Falls, Montana. Villines is advocating "snoozing" listings the week of May 18 to demonstrate host frustration with the vacation-rental platform. Courtesy of Ryan Villines This st... |
| - | The sting of an Airbnb rejection: Hosts explain why they turn down all sorts of travelers | When a woman in her early twenties requested to book Vicky Borman’s one-bedroom Heritage-listed cottage in the English village of St Neots last summer, something didn’t feel right.
The user had no reviews on her Airbnb profile, so Borman, w... |
| - | Is the AirBnB dream starting to crumble? | Shares for AirBnB have declined in the US market amid potential financial concerns among target customers.
The vacation rental company recently reported a decline of 14% in shares, having disclosed a lower second-quarter profit of $555m, co... |
| - | 40 stunning places to visit in 2020 before they become packed with tourists | Essaouira, Morocco is a port city that's making a name for itself for music, architecture and art. Shutterstock/Vixit
Escape the stuffed streets of Barcelona and the congested beaches of the Côte d'Azur by staying one step in front of the c... |
| - | The next ‘White Lotus’ is expected to be filmed in one of these locations in Asia | When the HBO black comedy “The White Lotus” premiered in the summer of 2021, it took viewers to Hawaii’s sunny Maui. It was a perfectly timed pandemic escape full of intrigue, satire, sex and bloodshed.
The second season featured a mostly n... |
