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Re:Airbnb Failed – Illegal Host, Electric Shocks, Slugs, Lea... by VBprogrammer on Friday October 21, 2022 @08:59AM (#33287529)
Expanding into different niches like that is difficult. It's like Booking.com expanding into the camping market. They end up trying to shoehorn camping into the same database tables as hotel stays and it just becomes an abomination which misses many of the subtleties in the market.
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Re:Airbnb Failed – Illegal Host, Electric Shocks, Slugs, Lea... by rjsw on Friday October 21, 2022 @09:16AM (#33287675)
I think Booking.com expanding into camping would work fine in Europe, most campsites are busineses with a defined set of facilities that they offer.
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Re:Airbnb Failed – Illegal Host, Electric Shocks, Slugs, Lea... by hef19898 on Friday October 21, 2022 @09:32AM (#33287822)
Depends on the camp grounds. Those with specified and defined places it should be rather easy to do (Italy, Croatia, Germany are among those regions were you tend to have a lot those, France is a mixed bag and I haven't been to GB or Scandinavia recently). Those without defined places, that's gonna be difficult...
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