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Video: Airbnb’s co-founder Brian Chesky talks trust and alternative lodging with the BBC

For a site built largely upon the belief that people (or at least early adopters) are generally good, Airbnb is a model for how optimism can transform an industry.

Skift | 12 years ago

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New ride-share app SideCar exemplifies the challenges ahead for the sharing economy

There's a balance to be found between regulation of the new upstarts and the realization that some rules are in place to protect consumers, not just create hassles.

Skift | 12 years ago

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What an interior designer thinks about the bad things people do in hotel rooms

There's nothing like a good story about BCP (read the story) to encourage the staycation movement.

Skift | 12 years ago

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What does it take to make you complain about a hotel stay?

In the era of tweets and TripAdvisor it's become a quandary for travelers to know the best way to voice their displeasure and think it will actually be heard by the right person.

Skift | 12 years ago

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Hotels piggyback on success of Fifty Shades of Grey with package deals

Every pop culture hit gets its own tourism tie-ins. It's just that this one is more titillating than New York's "Spider Man Week."

Skift | 12 years ago

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Harrods department store to go global as a luxury hotel brand

The Qatari owners have an edge already: They own prime real estate in many of the world's top destinations.

Skift | 12 years ago

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Room 77 to remain in the cloud after Amazon outage

Travel companies should fine-tune their cloud strategies after an Amazon Web Services outage took down Room 77, Pinterest, Instagram and Netflix. Given the cost-savings and efficiencies of cloud computing, travel companies won't be abandoning such services -- nor should they -- any time soon.

Skift | 12 years ago

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New York City hotels lead the rooftop bar trend

As summer heats up, evening activities migrate to outdoor spaces. Here's how New York stays ahead of the game.

Skift | 12 years ago

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Portico Club and Inspirato face off for vacation club supremacy

Can Portico by Exclusive Resorts and Inspirato resort to marketing super-exclusive vacation clubs to the mega wealthy? What Greek debt crisis? There probably is a market for this, and Steve Case and a bunch of other venture capitalists are making a downpayment on these clubs' viability.

Skift | 12 years ago

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How 21c museum hotel and other small boutiques are trying to expand

21c has built its success on creating innovative properties in overlooked, third-tier U.S. cities. Wil investment require expansion to major markets that are fiercely competitive?

Skift | 12 years ago