Airbnb today divulged the most critical improvement in its eight-year history as it moves past home with the launch of Trips. Trips are a people-controlled stage intended to make travel both simple and supernatural. Trips launches today with three key regions - Experiences, Places, and Homes, with Flights and Services to be included what's to come.
Airbnb, the site that gives you a chance to lease your extra rooms, or in reality your whole home, to voyagers, is one of Silicon Valley's brightest new companies - an incredible thought, executed easily. Trips will make travel magical again by submerging explorers in groups far and wide. Add that to three million bookable homes, and Airbnb turns into the one place to go for a genuinely extraordinary sort of travel understanding.
"As of now, Airbnb has been about homes," said Brian Chesky, Airbnb CEO. "Today, Airbnb is launching Trips, uniting where you stay, what you do, and the general population you meet all in one place. We need to make travel otherworldly again by returning individuals at the heart of each trip."
Experiences
Trips launch with around 500 Experiences in 12 urban areas around the world, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Detroit, Havana, London, Paris, Florence, Nairobi, Cape Town, Tokyo, and Seoul. From today, sprouting has in those and a further 39 urban communities worldwide can demand to list their Experience. With Trips, Airbnb likewise needs to make travel more social, interfacing the huge number of Airbnb clients in a city on any given night.
Homes
With three million homes accessible to book crosswise over 191 nations, Airbnb offers the biggest and most differing scope of unique accommodation for travelers which will now be accessible to book nearby Experiences in accessible urban communities.
Making travel simple
Booking travel today can be confused and stressful. With Trips, Airbnb expects to make it simple with one application to book the majority of your travel needs. Airbnb's vision is to eventually provide food for each part of an outing, making it both simple and mysterious from start to finish.
Identity Proof
The launch of Trips additionally observes the presentation of new identity authentication process that the Airbnb Experiences Community will utilise. Hosts and visitors will be requested that scan an official government ID (for example a passport, or driving license) and afterwards take a basic selfie. After the ID is validated, the ID and selfie will be investigated to affirm that both pictures seem to coordinate.