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Why not? A New Yorker who visits Japan needs a ride around town as much as they need housing? Ok, maybe not quite as much. But they do benefit.
It’s not nothing, but the difference is at least an order of magnitude. Consider: I am probably 0% likely to book an Airbnb in my own city. Almost all of my Airbnb’s will be somewhere else , so I only really care about remote stock. By contrast, something like 90%+ of my Uber rides are going to be local. In many of the places I might travel to, I don’t need Uber at all (the location is rural/suburban, the public tran…
Ehh. I rarely Uber in my home city and practically all my business is when I travel.
Especially internationally. If I’m in a country that doesn’t speak my language but they have uber, you better believe I’m ubering left and right.