Airbnb touts strong demand for business program

Saturday, 24 Aug, 2015 0

After announcing the global roll out of the Airbnb for Business program last month, the home rental platform says it signed up another 500 companies within 24 hours.

There are now more than 1000 firms in 35 countries using Airbnb as part of their corporate travel programs.

"The corporate community’s response to our business travel program has been staggering and confirms our findings that business travelers increasingly want to redefine the business trip," said Marc McCabe, Business Travel Lead, Airbnb.

McCabe says business travelers are more inclined to combine business trips with a leisure stay when using Airbnb.

"The average business travel stay on Airbnb is 6.8 days, which shows how customers are looking for a mix of business and leisure, and often adding a weekend to explore a new destination."

Airbnb’s business travel management tools offers employee financial reporting data for travel managers, centralized billing and access to employee travel itineraries.

The activity tab tool in the program logs each trip status displaying dates, location, the number of travelers in each group booking and an interactive map.

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