AirBnB, the site that lets you rent out your spare rooms, or indeed your entire home, to tourists, is one of Silicon Valley’s brightest start-ups - a great idea, executed effortlessly.
The next step is to reach for the holy grail of travel - making tourists feel like genuine locals.
Its new Trips service, announced on Thursday, will let local people offer their knowledge, experience, work or even just their social life - for a price.
To take just one example: anyone can visit Nelson Mandela’s prison cell. But with AirBnB Trips you’ll be able to get a guided tour from a man who was a prison warden tasked with keeping watch over the great leader.
“The whole idea is that you can immerse yourself in local communities,” Chesky tells the BBC.
"We bring places to life through the people who live there." Full story...
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The next step is to reach for the holy grail of travel - making tourists feel like genuine locals.
Its new Trips service, announced on Thursday, will let local people offer their knowledge, experience, work or even just their social life - for a price.
To take just one example: anyone can visit Nelson Mandela’s prison cell. But with AirBnB Trips you’ll be able to get a guided tour from a man who was a prison warden tasked with keeping watch over the great leader.
“The whole idea is that you can immerse yourself in local communities,” Chesky tells the BBC.
"We bring places to life through the people who live there." Full story...
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