Airbnb announces confidential submission of draft Registration Statement

Re:Airbnb announces confidential submission of draft Registr... by simias on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @05:23PM (#24216728)

I live in a very touristic neighborhood in Lisbon and several of the apartments in my building are rented full time through AirBnB & friends and it's definitely still a lot quieter than pre-covid, and we're in August when there should be tourists everywhere.

It's only one datapoint of course but from this very limited perspective it seems very hard for me to believe that their business would be stronger now than pre-covid.

But hotels are probably suffering even more, that's true.

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Re:Airbnb announces confidential submission of draft Registr... by opportune on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @06:15PM (#24217390)

Personally I’d love to spend some time in Lisbon but as an American I’m pretty sure I (rightly) wouldn’t be allowed in your country. So travel restrictions are probably the issue there

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Re:Airbnb announces confidential submission of draft Registr... by simias on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @06:57PM (#24217830)

Sure, that's part of the problem, but I think that's not a purely Portuguese thing. Hence why I have some difficulty believing that AirBnB would be thriving right now.

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