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Airbnb Just Hired booking.com’s Top Hotel Executive. Here's What That Means for Your Listings.
Airbnb just made two major corporate moves that signal an aggressive expansion beyond traditional short-term rentals: they poached Booking.com’s top hotel executive and invested $58 million to build a real-life social network. 🛑📉
In this episode of the RSU Podcast, Uvika Wahi (Short-Term Rental Industry Analyst and Editor at RSU by PriceLabs) unpacks these parallel strategies and what they mean for professional property managers. Why is a platform built for short-term rentals moving so fast into independent boutique hotels and curated millennial group travel? 💼💡
We break down:
🏨 The Hotel…
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