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Hosting sites Airbnb Announcing new features for travelers and hosts starting this month. During Airbnb’s 2024 summer launch event in Los Angeles, the company’s CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky announced that while more than 80% of bookings on the platform are group trips, the app has yet to develop tools for this category. of passengers. That is why the site has now provided new functions to facilitate the organization of these projects.

There will be one of them Favorites list shared, team members can easily share their favorites with each other, add accommodations, write notes, and vote on notifications. The application will automatically generate a list of options with these possible accommodations, sharing ads with others on the trip.

At the same time, it will redesign the tab contacts, so now all people participating in the trip can send messages to the host through a group. It consolidates all messages from guests, hosts, and support messages into one place for easy search of messages. In addition, AI-suggested quick answers help hosts respond to frequently asked questions immediately.

They can also be carried out Travel invitations through the application. Once your trip is booked, you can invite more people to join the trip with digital postcards of your destination illustrated by artists from around the world. Everyone who joins the trip will receive full booking details (from address, Wi-Fi password to check-in instructions).

With all this, the app hopes to simplify the process of traveling in groups for its passengers. And it proposes improvements based on the hosts’ own needs. This includes the expansion of the revenue dashboard with interactive performance graphs and automated revenue reporting for hosts.

To this end, they’ve made an update to the Notifications tab, which now gives hosts more control when creating and editing a photo tour to showcase their locations. Airbnb also added an easy way to quickly switch from host to guest mode within the app.

These new features will be available in the global app starting today.

New race: Airbnb Iconics

During the conference, the CEO of Airbnb announced that it is strengthening its commitment to themed experiences and experiences, previously in the Barbie house in Malibu or Shrek’s house, but this time it goes a step further. A new category of accommodation experiences powered by icons, top performers in music, film, television, art and sports.

“Iconic takes you to worlds that until now only existed in your imagination” Chesky mentioned. “As life becomes more digital every day, we are focused on bringing more magic to the real world. With Icónico we have created the most extraordinary experiences.

LGuests can adventure through Up’s house, spend the night at the Ferrari Museum, hang out with Kevin Hart, play Fortnite with Gabi Lame, or spend a week in a motorhome with reggaeton singer Fide on his Ferkssocalypse 2024 tour. In total, Airbnb has 11 iconic, new experiences offered all over the world throughout the year.

● High adventure House up to: Sleep in one of Disney and Pixar’s most famous houses, and yes, it floats. With over 8,000 balloons; Located in Abiquiu, New Mexico.

● Spend the night Ferrari Museum: Get up close and personal with the world of racing with a stay at the Ferrari Museum in Maranello, Italy. You’ll sleep on a bed made of the same leather as the Ferrari seats, ride with Scuderia Ferrari ambassador driver Marc Jean, and attend the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix as a VIP guest.

● Enter the worldX-Men’97– Live as the X-Men in a 2D animated recreation of Marvel’s X-Mansion Animation in Westchester, New York. You can practice in the danger room.

● VIP Night with Kevin Hart: Step into the Coramino Live Lounge with him and experience an exceptional night as if you were a VIP member.

● Wake up Orsay Museum: You can stay in the iconic Clock Room of the Art Museum in Paris, which has been transformed into a luxurious bedroom by the designer of the torch and cauldron for the Paris 2024 Games, and you can watch the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on the banks of the Seine River.

● Session in a room Cat Required: You’ll experience an unforgettable in-room performance with the Grammy Award-winning artist, including his favorite songs and tracks from his latest album.

● Home Purple Rain de Prince: Explore the house and listen to special songs from the world of Prince in an exclusive studio session.

● Play Happy Lame, the TikTok star invites his hometown of Milan to live an epic video game experience.

● Beautiful tour with Feid: Join the reggaeton superstar on his week-long FERXXOCALIPISIS World Tour. You’ll participate in rehearsals with the band, ride the tour bus, and have backstage access.

● Bollywood actress Janhvi Kapoor Inviting you to the famous Kapoor family home in Chennai, India. You can learn their beauty secrets and taste their favorite South Indian dishes.

● Create unforgettable memories cExtreme Minds 2: Ahead of the June 14 release of Disney and Pixar’s new movie Inside Out 2, you’re invited to spend a night at Riley’s emotional control center headquarters.

Iconics, Chesky clarified, They’re going to have their own category on the Airbnb homepage. Most Iconicos are free and all cost less than US$100 per guest, according to the specialty travel site. For each of these experiences guests can request their participation to book through an invitation and application. Selected guests will receive a digital golden ticket, with more than 4,000 tickets available by 2024.

Let’s remember that in Latin America, Airbnb’s numbers at the end of last year were encouraging, with guest bookings up 22% year-on-year in the fourth quarter, overcoming the setback they experienced globally due to the pandemic.

In fact, figures from the last quarter of 2019 doubled in Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil last year. For its part, Airbnb assures that this growth is due to the impact of the “Nights and Experiences” service.