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Re:Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares... by ed25519FUUU on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @11:30AM (#27516906)
In many ways we can thank competition from Airbnb for making the hotel experience better. Nothing gets industries to clean up their act like an existential threat.
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Re:Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares... by edmundsauto on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @03:33PM (#27520387)
Not sure why you got downvotes, but this is spot on. It also happened with Uber and taxicabs!
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Re:Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares... by ghaff on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @04:14PM (#27520901)
Uber and taxicabs I see. Hotels apps and websites have probably gotten better but I'm not sure how much of that is AirBnB vs. a general trend in the industry.
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Re:Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares... by jjeaff on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @05:24PM (#27521694)
Ya, hotels have always had to be highly competitive. But i suppose in areas where the number of available rooms had been somewhat fixed for a long time due to the difficulty of building any new hotels, you would see a difference as the hotels start to see their vacancy rates go up.
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Re:Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares... by edmundsauto on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @07:06PM (#27534506)
One way to think about it the pre-Airbnb rates of improvement. Alas, I’m not qualified to comment, except anecdotally that I feel hotels have gotten much better with technology recently. 15 years ago, Expedia was faxing reservations to hotels.
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