Asia’s not really a domestic travel market, for the most part, at least for us. Asia is laggard, because Asia is very much a cross-border business. Where we’re not seeing as much yet is Asia. And a fifth of our business is remained longer than a month, but we are seeing some return of cross-border. Half our business is still longer than a week or approximately, by nights.

They’re not all concentrating in the same place. We could go down the list and what’s happening, isn’t that everyone’s going to the Catskills. The Catskills in Hudson Valley are bigger than New Orleans.

More people travel to the Alabama Gulf Coast than Madrid. More people now travel to Austin on Airbnb than Barcelona. In fact, there’s a really interesting step. So, those two trends, people not just going to 100 cities, going everywhere, that’s here to stay. And they would stay not necessarily in big cities, but in these small, non-urban destinations, in these really big homes with other friends and family, and the length of stay increased because people weren’t tethered to an office. They would get in a car and they’d travel not by plane, but by car, like 200 miles away, which is basically the length of a tank of gas. So, what they did is two big phenomenons happened.

Then the pandemic happened, people couldn’t go to cities, they weren’t crossing borders. And 80 percent of our business was either urban or cross-border. I mean, so before the pandemic, Airbnb was a primarily cross-border business, where you’ll go to another country and stay in the city. Is there any pullback you’re seeing in terms of things going back to normal in terms of length of stays, are they shortening back to what it was pre-pandemic, et cetera, et cetera?Ĭhesky: Not yet. You’ve said travel will never come back to what it was pre-pandemic.Īli: All the remarks you said last year at Skift Global Forum, in many ways they continue to play out. So, you have been the biggest proponent of how the world has changed.Īli: … and what that means for travel. Obviously, anything you say is of high interest, so I’m so glad you’re here. I guess, next year, you’ll be in the middle somewhere. You opened last year’s conference, now you’re closing this year’s conference. Rafat Ali: All right, folks, you guys are ready for this? Everybody ready? Thank you, Brian, for being here.īrian Chesky Thank you for having me here.Īli: Two is a tradition.

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