Airbnb mixes business with leisure
Corporate travel bookings on the home-sharing platform have soared fivefold in the last year
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.
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