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Airbnb expands to experiences
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#22Google seems like they have been pushing more into this "experience" space with the creation of their local guide program. They've effectively introduced a review-based system for anything inside of maps and incentivize people through earned points for reviews, photos and other items. Google has been sending emails out to local guides to conduct meet-ups and other inputs from the users. Wondering how long before you can start contacting local guides directly from the maps application.
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#23This is awesome. My wife and I are planning a round the world trip to celebrate our last college tuition payment. We've talked about becoming 'Citizens of the World' and eschewing the canned tourist experiences to instead live the same lifestyle as the citizens of the countries we visit: Stay in a neighborhood instead of a high-rise hotel, shop at the same grocery stores, eat the same home-cooked meals, get around vi…
Wow, you are deep and impressive. Very cool!
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#24This is awesome. My wife and I are planning a round the world trip to celebrate our last college tuition payment. We've talked about becoming 'Citizens of the World' and eschewing the canned tourist experiences to instead live the same lifestyle as the citizens of the countries we visit: Stay in a neighborhood instead of a high-rise hotel, shop at the same grocery stores, eat the same home-cooked meals, get around vi…
> to instead live the same lifestyle as the citizens of the countries we visit: Stay in a neighborhood instead of a high-rise hotel, shop at the same grocery stores, eat the same home-cooked meals, get around via the same transit, I mean as high-fidelity as is reasonable
Until one of you gets severely sick or something like that, in which case you'll be very happy to not live like a local anymore and fall back on your home country.
This "citizen of the world" rhetoric seems to only ever be "citizen of the world that we like". How about being a citizen of the world in North Korea, or as a woman in Saudi Arabia, or as a gay teenager in Somalia?
Sorry, I have a hard time swallowing the "bourgeoisie traveling the world with Airbnb is the best way to combat bigotry" bait.
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#25This is awesome. My wife and I are planning a round the world trip to celebrate our last college tuition payment. We've talked about becoming 'Citizens of the World' and eschewing the canned tourist experiences to instead live the same lifestyle as the citizens of the countries we visit: Stay in a neighborhood instead of a high-rise hotel, shop at the same grocery stores, eat the same home-cooked meals, get around vi…
> to instead live the same lifestyle as the citizens of the countries we visit: Stay in a neighborhood instead of a high-rise hotel, shop at the same grocery stores, eat the same home-cooked meals, get around via the same transit, I mean as high-fidelity as is reasonable Until one of you gets severely sick or something like that, in which case you'll be very happy to not live like a local anymore and fall back on you…
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#26This is awesome. My wife and I are planning a round the world trip to celebrate our last college tuition payment. We've talked about becoming 'Citizens of the World' and eschewing the canned tourist experiences to instead live the same lifestyle as the citizens of the countries we visit: Stay in a neighborhood instead of a high-rise hotel, shop at the same grocery stores, eat the same home-cooked meals, get around vi…
So just use couchsurfing.org
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#27Why is this an app?
Why can't I use the airbnb website so that I can sit comfortably at a desk with a real mouse and keyboard and calendar?
On a PC, you can open new tabs easily to read reviews, look at maps, make itineraries, and comparison shop. This is torture on a phone, and as a result, people just don't perform as thorough a search on mobile.
Airbnb knows this because they have data on how many options we consider before making a reservation when we browse on phones vs. PCs.
With this app, they're trying to push us towards making a less informed decision by limiting our ability to research the options, which seems blatantly anti-consumer to me.
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#28Wonder if this new app will work any better than the current garbage iOS app which is essentially unusable.
Have to resort to mobile site (which is fine), and continue to be heckled to switch to the app.
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#29This is awesome. My wife and I are planning a round the world trip to celebrate our last college tuition payment. We've talked about becoming 'Citizens of the World' and eschewing the canned tourist experiences to instead live the same lifestyle as the citizens of the countries we visit: Stay in a neighborhood instead of a high-rise hotel, shop at the same grocery stores, eat the same home-cooked meals, get around vi…
> to instead live the same lifestyle as the citizens of the countries we visit: Stay in a neighborhood instead of a high-rise hotel, shop at the same grocery stores, eat the same home-cooked meals, get around via the same transit, I mean as high-fidelity as is reasonable Until one of you gets severely sick or something like that, in which case you'll be very happy to not live like a local anymore and fall back on you…
You might try thinking about this from the other direction. I can tell you from first-hand experience that once-shocking levels of South Korean nationalism, and really, ethnic nationalism, have been calmed down to something far far friendlier and more cosmopolitan, and it very much seems that travel and exposure to other cultures (especially the West, but not only) are what has done the trick.
Now as for being a North Korean, well, you are kind of proving the point because North Koreans' number one problem is isolation from the world.
Back in the USA, what percentage of Trump voters do you imagine hold passports? Sure, correlation is different from causation, but still...
So I can respect your call to realism, but at the same time it reminds me of some old aphorism about babies and bathwater or something.
Incidentally, another baby that people seem to want to throw out when the bathwater gets dirty is international trade.
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#30I travel a lot and I have recently started to use Google trips and it's amazing app which shows what to do for the day, when the attractions get close, what's the nearest hotel, photos, translations of basic sentences and more..
How this will be different from Google Trips? Does Airbnb has enough data to show me relevant information? Or this is about partnering with local businesses to find me a guide/get a massage?