Airbnb Adds Rental Cars, Stepping Onto Expedia and Booking’s Turf
Airbnb Adds Rental Cars, Stepping Onto Expedia and Booking’s Turf
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- Airbnb Adds Rental Cars, Stepping Onto Expedia and Booking’s Turf
- It’s Airbnb’s first move into ground transportation, a category that rivals Booking Holdings and Expedia Group have used for years
The stakes
- All of it was announced Wednesday by CEO Brian Chesky as part of the company's annual Summer Release in San Francisco
- Airbnb’s annual Summer Release announced a scatter shot of updates and additions, instead of one big bet
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It’s Airbnb’s first move into ground transportation, a category that rivals Booking Holdings and Expedia Group have used for years
Photo Credit: Airbnb is entering the rental car business. Airbnb
Airbnb’s annual Summer Release announced a scatter shot of updates and additions, instead of one big bet. Many of them – including the company’s first foray into rental cars – cross squarely into legacy OTA territory
What happened
- Airbnb Adds Rental Cars, Stepping Onto Expedia and Booking’s Turf
- It’s Airbnb’s first move into ground transportation, a category that rivals Booking Holdings and Expedia Group have used for years
- Photo Credit: Airbnb is entering the rental car business
- Airbnb Airbnb’s annual Summer Release announced a scatter shot of updates and additions, instead of one big bet
- Many of them – including the company’s first foray into rental cars – cross squarely into legacy OTA territory
Why this matters
- All of it was announced Wednesday by CEO Brian Chesky as part of the company's annual Summer Release in San Francisco
- Airbnb’s annual Summer Release announced a scatter shot of updates and additions, instead of one big bet
- The release extends a strategy Chesky laid out in September, when he told investors that artificial intelligence had put mature industries Airbnb ha
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