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05•11•18 Welcome to the Short Term Rentalz weekly newsletter!
• Gant Travel’s partnership with Airbnb for Work, which will make Airbnb content available to all of its Concur Travel customers, is a significant move in the business travel space.
Gant becomes the first travel management company TMC in the SAP Concur ecosystem to partner with Airbnb, a major step for Airbnb in its bid to become a mainstream business travel platform. Although there are still issues around duty of care which still concern TMCs and travel managers when it comes to sharing economy options, Gant’s move is a sea change.
It tested the waters with some of its trusted clients, with positive results, prompting Gant president Patrick Linnihan to say: “We have a ton of experience in the small to medium-size business support, and Gant employees use Airbnb where appropriate. So we know that for the right situation, this is the most productive and cost-efficient way to travel. We thought it was just a matter of time until we saw other players become more deeply involved in this, and we want to lead and we wanted to master it first so we jumped in.”
The global business travel market is worth around $1.5 trillion annually and Airbnb has a relatively small slice of that pie. For a business hell bent on finding new ways to grow, it is a golden opportunity.
• We hope you are enjoying our new STRz website - we are committed to providing the latest news and intelligence for the fast-growing and rapidly-evolving short term rental industry, covering urban and resort vacation rentals, home-sharing, holiday homes, business travel and more.
This is such an exciting industry, and it's growing at a dizzying speed. There is so much happening in the space in terms of legislation, technological innovation and major investment we felt it was important that there was a dedicated news and information resource for short term rental professionals to keep up to date. STRz will bring you all the important news, along with comment, analysis, guest writers and video content.
If you have a story you want us to tell the industry, please contact me on the email address below.
George Sell, Editor
george@internationalhospitality.media
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