News Summary: Airbnb today unveiled new Airbnb service features and upgrades that align with how travel should be in the new post-corona era. In all, it has released over 100 new services, including a new reservation system and checkout process.
Talking Point: First major release after going public on Airbnb in December 2020. As you can see from the fact that it is aggregated and published under a new URL, I think this release is recognized as a turning point for Airbnb.
The reborn Airbnb uses the word 'Flexible' a lot. Among them, the three major functions of "Flexible Dates", "Flexible Matching" and "Flexible Destinations" are especially taken up.
These were mainly updates from the guest's perspective, but of course there are also big updates from the host's perspective. For example, the newly introduced deep learning function proposes the most suitable facility appeal points and titles for each host, contributing to the burden on the host and improving the conversion rate. It is also a model for displaying photos of facilities to clients in an optimal form, and it can be said that automation in terms of operations has improved.
Other major guest and host updates are summarized below.
Of course, the above is only a part, and more than 100 detailed new features are summarized on airbnb.com/2021, so please check it out. please look.
In the next article, we'll take a look at Airbnb founder Brian Chesky's thoughts on this release and the future of the travel market. By the way, in a nutshell: It is cool!