Business travellers to France are in the sights of online rental marketplace Airbnb, according to a senior official on Thursday at the company best known for hosting holidaymakers. Airbnb For Business was launched in 2015 for companies looking for new and cheaper ways to accommodate staff on business trips and for Airbnb to keep up its rapid expansion.
Business travel is growing faster than leisure travel and corporate customers now account for some 15 percent of rental nights booked on Airbnb. The goal is to lift that ratio to 30 percent by 2020. "We think there are very good prospects for Airbnb in business travel and France is definitely a market we are looking at," Jon Liebtag, Airbnb's head of business travel for EMEA told Reuters, mentioning Germany and Britain too.
In France last year the number of stays booked on Airbnb by business travellers grew four-fold. With over 400,000 listings, France is Airbnb's second largest market after the United States, and Paris, the most visited city in the world, is its biggest single market, with 65,000 homes listed. Founded in San Francisco in 2008, Airbnb, which matches people wishing to rent out all or part of their homes to temporary guests, has become a mainstay for holidaymakers.
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