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Sharing economy/
Collaborative consumption:
Its affect on the travel industry
David L Jones, PhD
Professor and Programme Director
Hospitality Business
Singapore Institute of Technology
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DLJ &
Corporate Travel Management
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Brian Chesky - CEO of AirBnB &
Rachel Botsman – Author of
What’s Mine is Yours
University of San Francisco
Annual Symposium 2013
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Collaborative Consumption
• Definition
– Collaborative Consumption describes the rapid
explosion in swapping, sharing, bartering, trading
and renting being reinvented through the latest
technologies and peer-to-peer marketplaces in
ways and on a scale never possible before
(www.collabortiveconsumption.com)
– Originated in Mainland China with the tuangou
(Zheng, 2011)
– Also called “sharing economy” or “meshing”
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The Shift
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Sharing Economy in Corporate Travel
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My Personal
Experience
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$10 Billion Company
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Airbnb Growth - Internationally
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How About Singapore?
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Statistica – June 2013
Major USA Cities Mix
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San Francisco and Sharing Economy
• Guest rooms inventory
• Traditional hotel rooms = 33,000
• AirBnB listings = 5-10,000
• Conflicting interests
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Issues in SF AirBnB Controversy
Lodging Industry
• Hotel Tax
• Safety
• Zoning laws
• Rental market
Sharing Economy
 People & sharing
 Excess consumption
 Entrepreneurship
 Trust
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Game Changer
Chip Conley – Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy - AirBnB
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Only 10% of their business today
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“We will never compete with
Marriott or Hilton for the two-day
road warriors,” Conley says. “We
don’t want that business traveler.
For the road warriors that go two
days here, two days there, and
want a rewards program, that’s
just not us.”
15 Oct 2014 - Quartz
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“It makes a lot more sense
to have a place with a
kitchen so we can cook; it
feels more like home,”
From a Tech Industry Corporate Traveler
Based on Stay in SF
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Advertising
through
Traditional
Channels - AMEX
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Corporate Travel Impact
• Concur Technologies incorporated AirBnB this
year
• Major convention bureaus for conferences
• Companies using them
– Salesforce
– Evernote
– Lyft
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Concur’s Tracking Results
• AirBnB
– Tripled, account for $1 million in expenses in first
quarter of 2015
– One of fastest growing lodging segments
• Uber
– Usage it tracks grew ninefold from 2013 to 2014
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Other Sharing Economy Impacts
Going Mainstream
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Transportation Examples
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Meeting Space and Workplaces
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Are They Friend or Foe?
Neither, It’s a Wake-up Call
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Rethinking Distribution Channel
• Rethinking value creation
• Rethinking value consumption
• Rethinking quality control
• Rethinking scale
Choudray – Forbes 7/7/14
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Sharing Economy/ Collaborative Consumption: It's affect on the travel industry

Editor's Notes

  • #4 Where the distribution system began when I started working with corporate travel
  • #5 Change to GDS
  • #6 Lessons from Shangri-la and the change that occurred
  • #7 A 1996 depiction of the distribution systems between guest and hotel
  • #8 Where is distribution going in the future?
  • #10 Traditional channels OTA’s Hotel Websites New channels Social Mobile Disruptor Sharing Economy
  • #12 Originated in Mainland China with the tuangou (Zheng, 2011)
  • #13 How I stepped into this arena
  • #24 Where in Singapore? Based on a week day search.
  • #37 How many use them? Zipcar is now Avis
  • #40 Rethinking value creation: Airbnb allows anyone with a spare mattress or room to run their own BnB, by giving them access and tools to market themselves to a potentially global market. Rethinking value consumption: It wasn’t common for travelers to stay at strangers‘ apartments in a new city. AirBnB created a new behavior and changed the very design of the traditional trip. Rethinking quality control: Hotels are known for their service quality and the reliability of the customer experience. AirBnB, on the other hand relies on a peer curation mechanism to ensure quality and reliability. Rethinking scale: Traditional hotels would scale by adding more rooms through new properties. Airbnb doesn’t own inventory. Instead, it scales by improving its ability to match users, leveraging better data.