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Ⅰ Life and Pleasure

The New Paradigm of Travel

Airbnb

Have you heard about sharing economy? ‘Share, space to a complete stranger who is neither a
and you’ll get money.’ It is the main point of the friend nor a relative. There are positive effects to
sharing economy. There is a similar concept to it, both sides, because not accommodations but gen-
Crowd – sourcing. It is the collaborative consump- eral houses are used for this service. The host can

tion that creates new values by sharing their own get monetary interests by lending their house
properties and technologies with others. The suc- while one is away from house and the guest can
cessive example of crowd – sourcing is the Airbnb. find suited one’s taste place to stay.

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What is the Airbnb? The process of development of Airbnb

Airbnb is the largest accommodation sharing serv- The North American consumers responded favor-
ice in the world. It was founded in August 2008 and ably about airbnb that connects the demand to re-
headquartered in San Francisco, California. The solve the accommodation problems with cheaper
meaning of the name, Airbnb is the air bed and costs than hotel rooms and the demand for earn-
breakfast. That is, people can get cheap place to ing some extra income by utilizing part of residen-
sleep and breakfast. Airbnb is started from the tial space. In the early stages of business,
idea of finding values in my house which was not however, due to the low perception, it was difficult

regarded as a commodity before. If a tourist or a to find leaseholders to provide space as well as
guest needs a house for stay so that applies tenants. At that moment, Paul Graham who is the
through the Airbnb service, the host can lend his famous angel investment, that is a start-up assis-
or her house to the guest and the guest can use tance investment advised them to move the place.
it. Then, Airbnb can get some commission. When the person who lent the entire Manhattan
Like this, Airbnb is the service of sharing my living apartment gets a big profit, the number of visitors

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