Airbnb, founded in 2008, has been operating in the Chinese market since 2013, but it actually entered and established the company on August 18, 2015. After nearly three years of business testing, Airbnb decided to enter the Chinese online short-term rental platform market with a high profile. The Chinese name "Airbnb" was announced on March 22 this year, less than two weeks after it received $1 billion in financing and a valuation of more than $30 billion.
With a wide range of listings at home and abroad, Airbnb is working hard to carry out localization transformation, so as to seize the Fax List important market in China. Airbnb's Chinese name is "Airbnb", which is similar to the English pronunciation, meaning "let love meet each other". In this beautiful and distinctive travel home rental community, users can publish, search for vacation home rental information and complete online rental/booking procedures through web or mobile applications.
According to its official website, its community platform has 600,000 listings in 65,000 cities in 191 countries, providing travelers with millions of unique accommodation options such as apartments, villas, castles, tree houses and more. While opening the door to the most interesting accommodation in the world, Airbnb has also opened up the short-term rental homestay market, which has strongly impacted the pattern of the traditional hotel industry. It has also become an industry giant in just 9 years.