
While in its early years, the private rental platform offered a casual and innovative formula involving meeting the hosts and being transported into a foreign yet familiar environment, its latest developments illustrate a rise towards professionalization. A step-by-step analysis.
When the Air Bed & Breakfast website, the ancestor of Airbnb, was launched in 2007, it was because its designers could not afford to pay rent. Hence they arranged a few airbeds on their own apartment's floor, and offered a place to stay and breakfast to anyone looking for a place to stay overnight...
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