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What AirBnB missed was to include hotels in its listings, which would have allowed them to over a complete experience for travelers in general. booking.com star
by hef19898 4y ago
What AirBnB missed was to include hotels in its listings, which would have allowed them to over a complete experience for travelers in general. booking.com started with hotels and included more AirBnB style listings.
- VBprogrammer 4y agoExpanding into different niches like that is difficult. It's like Booking.com expanding into the camping market. They end up trying to shoehorn camping into the same database tables as hotel stays and it just becomes an abomination which misses many of the subtleties in the market.
- rjsw 4y agoI think Booking.com expanding into camping would work fine in Europe, most campsites are busineses with a defined set of facilities that they offer.
- hef19898 4y agoDepends on the camp grounds. Those with specified and defined places it should be rather easy to do (Italy, Croatia, Germany are among those regions were you tend to have a lot those, France is a mixed bag and I haven't been to GB or Scandinavia recently). Those without defined places, that's gonna be difficult...
- ghaff 4y agoA lot of B&Bs (in the sense of small inns) in the US do list on AirBnB.
- slaw 4y agoAirBnb lists some hotel rooms in Mexico.