Airbnb Makes It Easy for Businesses to Book Accommodation with New Portal

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Airbnb has launched a pared-down portal on its site dedicated to increasing the number of business travelers and enterprises using the accommodation-booking service.

As such, the new section is designed to show properties that are more likely to appeal to professional jet-setters, ie. it excludes single rooms in shared apartments or other more novelty options, and includes ones with Wi-Fi that are available for immediate booking, according to The Wall Street Journal.

In a secondary bid to bolster the number of business customers using the platform – it already has around 30 – Airbnb has partnered with business travel and expenses company Concur to allow users to book properties directly through the Concur TripLink service.

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Clearly, revamping its UI and logo last week wasn’t just a consumer play.

➤ Business Travel on Airbnb [via The Wall Street Journal]