- Airbnb CEO of Airbnb wants to become Amazon of Travel.
- Brian Chisky said the plan aims to “be airbnb” one place to go to all your travel and living needs. “
- The company invests between 200 to $ 250 million to launch new offers on the application in May.
Brian Chisky, CEO of Airbnb, says he wants to become the company from Amazon Travel-one store for everything related to travel and living.
In Thursday’s profit call, Airbnb presidents said that the company plans to invest $ 200 million to $ 250 million in launching new business and offers on the Airbnb application. Chesky said the latest offers will be launched in May.
Chesky said the platform “will expand beyond short -term rents to become an extension platform with a set of new offers.”
He said: “We want the Airbnb application, which looks like Amazon, is one place to go to all your travel and living needs.” “A place to stay is really, frankly, a very small part of the total equation.”
The new Airbnb project likened to Amazon, saying that the e -commerce giant started with books, and expanded to “the nearest adjacent”, which was DVD and CDS tablets, and “they soon did completely neighboring things from the media and books.”
Chesky added that one of the company’s goals is to make people use the Airbnb application often.
He said: “We are not a very frequent application. People use this once or twice a year, and I would like to be one day for people to use this once or twice a week.”
The company announced revenues of $ 2.48 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024, an increase of 12 % over the same period in 2023. Its annual revenues amounted to 2024 11.10 billion dollars, an increase of 12 % over 2023.
Airbnb’s share price increased by more than 14 % in trading hours after Thursday hours.
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