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New Startups Fill Great Hospitality Hiring Void

2017-04-07 by Liliana Steffens

Hiring made easy

Getting a leg up on hiring qualified people in the hospitality space, a couple of new startups are hoping to solve the problem of connecting skilled hospitality workers with the businesses that need them on-demand. Here’s a brief take on how apps and services are intersecting the hiring space too.

Tags: ACrew, AirBnb, Entrepreneur 20X (E20X), guest experience, Harri, HFTP, HITEC Amsterdam, hospitality, Housejoy, hyre, sharing economy, Squaddle

Airbnb Raises Another $1 Billion for Possible Expansion

2017-03-10 by Delia Gavrilescu

Airbnb rentals

Home rental company AirBnb has just got another $1 billion (£821 million) cash injection to be used for expansion. The company, which disclosed the funding in a securities filing on Thursday, raised the money in a financing round that began last summer. The company is now valued at soem $31 billion, but this filing did not list new investors.

Tags: AirBnb, Airbnb funding, home rentals, sharing economy, Uber, vacation rentals

Airbnb Really Is the Big Bad Wolf

2017-02-01 by Phil Butler

Airbnb is the Big Bad Wolf

The hotel industry is in a nightmare of dire concerns over a beleaguered hospitality market. Airbnb and the impact the so-called “sharing economy” is on every hotelier’s mind, and understandably. The industry is for all intents and purposes, lost in a forest like Little Red Riding Hood trying to figure how much business the Big Bad Wolf […]

Tags: AirBnb, Big Bad Wolf, Booking.com, crete, hotel industry, hotels, marketing, OTA's, shared economy, sharing economy, travel tech




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