With Gaest, Airbnb confirms its ambitions in Meetings & Events

Airbnb has just acquired Gaest, a platform specialising in the rental of meeting and team-building spaces, confirming its growing popularity with business customers and its diversification from individual business travel to corporate groups.
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Airbnb has just acquired Gaest, to strengthen the meetings & events section of Airbnb for Work

We have joined the family Airbnb"It was with these words, published on 25 January by Corey MorrisGaest.com's marketing director, on the platform's blog, that the specialist in meeting rooms has announced that it is joining the Airbnb fold. The acquisition of this Danish platform, which was founded in 2015 and specialises in short-term rentals ofmeeting rooms and team buildingwill add another strategic string to Airbnb's business bow. It follows on logically from the change of direction made official last September, with the launch of the launch of team building experiencesby giving it more substance: " Airbnb for Work wants to attract business customers beyond individual travel "As the press release published on 25 January points out. " The new Team Building Experiences and Seminar Accommodation offers target group customers, to grow further in the business segment. (...) Today, the team is focused on bringing the best of Airbnb to the business world by going beyond business travel and including team building, meetings and off-site meetings, as well as relocations for customers. ".