Better reputed globally as an enabler of home sharing in its initial days, Airbnb is presently expanding its product offering to offer travellers the ‘best trip’.
Parin Mehta, APAC trips operations director for Airbnb shared with a leading news media platform that when travellers think about a trip, it’s got several constituent parts, for instance the home that they stay in, there might be some experiences that one takes or they might even want to attend a concert or a restaurant as well.
He then went on to assert that what they were trying to do is actually build something slightly different and that they were making efforts to build really local and authentic experiences in every city, citing activities where locals can accompany guests on, such as water sport or dance classes.
In particular, Tokyo, Seoul and Bali has seen much traction, Mehta said. But these are also places which are “quite difficult” for foreigners to navigate, and where its community of locals can play a part in guiding them through the experiences, he added.
Mehta also said there was an opportunity to tap on the trend of Chinese millennials going overseas, as well as the increasing occurrence of domestic travel within the country.
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