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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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San Francisco and Sharing Economy
• Guest rooms inventory
• Traditional hotel rooms = 33,000
• AirBnB listings = 5-10,000
• Conflicting interests
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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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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
Where the distribution system began when I started working with corporate travel
Change to GDS
Lessons from Shangri-la and the change that occurred
A 1996 depiction of the distribution systems between guest and hotel
Where is distribution going in the future?
Traditional channels
OTA’s
Hotel Websites
New channels
Social
Mobile
Disruptor
Sharing Economy
Originated in Mainland China with the tuangou (Zheng, 2011)
How I stepped into this arena
Where in Singapore? Based on a week day search.
How many use them? Zipcar is now Avis
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.