Introduction Airbnb, world’s largest accommodation provider, owns on real estate. It is one of the perfect example for the uprising “sharing economy”. It has over 1,500,000 listings in 34,000 cities and 190 countries. Founded in August 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company is privately owned and operated by Airbnb, Inc. A guest seeking to rent a room or a property on Airbnb can enter the desired destination and dates, then view a variety of options including property type
agencies to stay competitive. This report has identified specific trends that WTS travel can capitalize on to stay ahead of the competition. Firstly, WTS travel could exploit the growing importance of social media usage. Secondly, the booming use of Airbnb in cultural tourism. In our current hyper-connected world, the increase in interactivity in the digital space has led to the rise of technology like social media. Social media is widely used by travelers for cultural tourism and travel products (Buhalis
investor may provide one-time investment to help business development, or multiple investments to support the company through its difficult early stages. There are very good examples for this one, such as the founder of Airbnb, a business incubator organization called Y Combinator helped Airbnb developed the business with money and technological support. For venture capitalist, he or she or even an investment firm will publicly invest millions of dollars into very promising startups. A good example of this
the globe, from mom-and pop B&Bs (Bed and Breakfast) for a night, to a small apartment for a week, or even a castle for a month. This unique app covers a range of prices in more than thirty four thousand cities across almost two hundred countries. Airbnb receives percentage service fees from both consumer and hosts for every booking made in this platform. It is compatible for both the iPhone and Android users. Uber: This is one of the transportation apps that the customer can request a car and inform
2.a “Create a healthy snack which does not taste healthy” Nikolaj Lehmann was the idea to start a business of Raw Bite I found interesting the story of growth as well as simply I like the idea of healthy food tasting unhealthy, I once heard a quote which sounded along the lines of as only the unhealthy food tastes good which I can relate to, I feel like Raw Bite is a part of a movement of so much variation of healthy food which tastes good. Raw bite has today sold almost 7 million bars and had a
The Advent of Technology: For Better or Worse? Being born in an era where technology was second nature to me, I didn’t see the drastic changes in the way technology impacted our lives. I had become accustomed to checking emails on my phone and ‘Facetiming’ my friends when I wanted to discuss school work or just to catch up. It was until I saw my grandfather writing a letter one day that I realized without any doubt, dependency on technology has changed the way we lead our lives and these changes