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In many ways we can thank competition from Airbnb for making the hotel experience better. Nothing gets industries to clean up their act like an existential thre
by ed25519FUUU 5y ago
In many ways we can thank competition from Airbnb for making the hotel experience better. Nothing gets industries to clean up their act like an existential threat.
- edmundsauto 5y agoNot sure why you got downvotes, but this is spot on. It also happened with Uber and taxicabs!
- ghaff 5y agoUber and taxicabs I see. Hotels apps and websites have probably gotten better but I'm not sure how much of that is AirBnB vs. a general trend in the industry.
- jjeaff 5y agoYa, hotels have always had to be highly competitive. But i suppose in areas where the number of available rooms had been somewhat fixed for a long time due to the difficulty of building any new hotels, you would see a difference as the hotels start to see their vacancy rates go up.
- edmundsauto 5y agoOne way to think about it the pre-Airbnb rates of improvement. Alas, I’m not qualified to comment, except anecdotally that I feel hotels have gotten much better with technology recently. 15 years ago, Expedia was faxing reservations to hotels.