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Airbnb Pushes Corporate Travel

Airbnb is aggressively tapping into the business travel market and recently integrated with major management systems, such as American Express Global Business Travel and BCD Travel.

According to the company, business travel on its site has grown by three times since last July.

While most users of Airbnb currently use the platform for vacations, the company’s recent push into corporate business travel is a move back to its roots, when its founders started the company for conference attendees in San Francisco opting for a cheaper alternative to pricey hotels.

“Business travelers want convenience, where they can get good Wi-Fi, an ironing board and hair dryer … things you accept in traditional accommodations,” Julian Persaud, Airbnb’s Regional Director of APAC told CNBC.

Some of its listings are now specified as business-travel ready, which requires hosts don’t have pets and don’t allow smoking.

Airbnb said its now seeing 14,000 new companies sign up each week for its business travel services and the home-sharing giant is already being used on business trips by the likes Google and Morgan Stanley.

See more from CNBC here.

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