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Re:Ahead of IPO, Airbnb achieves profitability for second ye... by ricardobeat on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @07:43PM (#18917262)
Counter-intuitively, demand for travel tends to go up in rough times.
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Re:Ahead of IPO, Airbnb achieves profitability for second ye... by scarecrowboat on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @12:41AM (#18918517)
Do you have any sources on that? I have family in the hotel industry and anecdotally the entire industry in my area took a nose dive in the last recession. Not quite the same as general demand for travel but it's more relevant to how Airbnb would perform in a recession.
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