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Airbnb mixes business with leisure

Corporate travel bookings on the home-sharing platform have soared fivefold in the last year

Published Tue, Sep 12, 2017 · 09:50 PM

Singapore

INITIALLY targeted at mainly tourists, the home-sharing platform Airbnb is now becoming increasingly popular among business travellers in the Asia-Pacific (APAC), according to David Holyoke, the company's global head of business travel.

Since 2015, when Airbnb rolled out a programme targeted specifically at business travellers called Airbnb for Work, more than 250,000 companies worldwide have enrolled in the programme with about 18,000 corporate accounts being added each month.

About 53,000 comp…

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