Airbnb Now Offers Bookings for Massages, Chefs, Fitness

This 12 months, AAA is predicting a brand new Memorial Day weekend journey file with an estimated 45.1 million folks venturing no less than 50 miles from their houses from Thursday, Could 22, to Monday, Could 26. That is a rise of 1.4 million vacationers in comparison with final 12 months. (The earlier file was set in 2005 with 44 million folks, the corporate notes.)

If that offers you pause to hit the street, Airbnb needs to make issues simpler by being your personal private concierge when touring (or deciding to hang around at house).

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On Tuesday, the corporate announced a redesigned app with a spate of recent options, together with one known as “Providers.”

“Inns do have one factor that we do not have, and people are companies,” CEO and Cofounder Brian Chesky, 43, stated on the launch occasion in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

Now, Airbnb customers in 260 cities can e-book issues like meals (in-home and ready-to-eat meals from skilled cooks or full-service catering); images periods; massages and spa remedies (Swedish, deep tissue, reflexology, facials, microdermabrasion, physique scrubs); private coaching (yoga, power coaching, HIIT); and sweetness companies (hair, make-up, nails).

Chesky told the New York Times the corporate was all the time “destined to do extra” than simply be an app to e-book or supply a spot to remain.

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Airbnb says that each one service professionals are “vetted for high quality,” have an “common of 10 years of expertise, accomplished Airbnb’s id verification course of, and are required to submit related licenses and certifications.”

It is not Joe-from-down-the-block who’s coming to cook dinner your meal (no disrespect to Joe). Airbnb is touting its connections and providing “cooks from Michelin-starred eating places, award-winning photographers, and elite trainers.”

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However regardless that that will sound costly, the corporate says there are companies in any respect worth factors, with many under $50.

“Airbnb is presently used as a noun and a verb, and it means a spot to remain,” Chesky informed the New York Occasions. “The query we then requested was what when you may Airbnb greater than an Airbnb and primarily monetize the most important asset in your life, which might be not your own home however your time, ardour, and ability set.”