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Vrbo Faces Blowback on Rising Commissions, Plans to Ease Rate Parity Rule

From a competition perspective, Vrbo is catching up to Booking.com and Airbnb in pushing the fee burden onto hosts. Eliminating or greatly reducing guest fees has great optics, but travelers will end up paying for them in the form of higher rates.

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Oct 7, 2026 · bySkift Airlines

Airbnb Is Rebuilding Its Luxe Program for High-End Homes: Scoop

Airbnb's rekindled push into luxury is its latest revival of initiatives dropped during the pandemic. Among them, Airbnb has expanded its hotels and experiences businesses, and frequently says that it will eventually debut flights.

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Oct 6, 2026 · bySkift Airlines

Caves, castles and domes: The countries with the most unusual places to stay

France came out top overall, with nearly 3,000 unusual property listings on Airbnb, including more than 1,000 castles.

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Oct 6, 2026 · byEuronews

Rapper Future's Brother FBG Casino Reaches Plea Deal in Fentanyl Case

Future's brother, FBG Casino, cut a plea deal in his fentanyl case ... after federal agents said they found 17 kilos worth of fentanyl in an Airbnb-turned-stash house. FBG -- real name Rico Deville Buice -- pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to…

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Oct 2, 2026 · byTMZ

Europe’s Affordable Housing Act must look beyond short-term rentals

As Brussels pins its housing fix on curbing Airbnb-style rentals, campaigners warn lawmakers are ducking a far bigger fight over Europe’s millions of empty homes and the people still sleeping rough.

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Oct 2, 2026 · byEUobserver

Trá Pháidín: Cloch’s Claí review – giddy Galway gang burst the boundaries of folk music

(World of Echo) With musical ideas spanning mariachi and motorik beats, and lyrics with Kneecap-grade rage, this brilliant collective evolve tradition with stinging, joyful songs Quicksilver and giddy in its exploration of Irish music, language and identity, Trá Pháidín’s second album bursts open the idea of a 21st-century traditional folk record. It woos you with the reverb-smothered guitars and birdsong-like flutes of Tí Mhichael Phaddy (Michael Paddy’s House, an opener suggesting a psychedelically perfect rurality) before an Irish woman cuts in, bigging up her countryside Airbnb on the phone. A shouty local then comically interrupts her. Trá Pháidín (Paddy’s Beach) are a six-strong collective of brilliant musicians from Galway, Ireland’s largest Irish-speaking county, and their album’s title, Cloch’s Claí (Stone and Dry Stone Wall), suggests that each track plays its own scabrous, weight-bearing part in the whole. The 45 minutes unfold as an interrupted sequence, full of improvisation, texture and ornament, the band freely roaming other genres, revealing them as connected neighbourhoods. Continue reading...

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Oct 2, 2026 · byThe Guardian

Brian Chesky interview: AI agents need their own operating system

Brian Chesky on making Airbnb agent-friendly, the state of consumer AI, and why the world needs an AI-native operating system.

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Oct 1, 2026 · byTechCrunch

Airbnb Launches AI Tools, Catching Up to OTA Rivals

Airbnb is not a first-mover in AI launches. That's OK: Kayak wasn't a first-mover in metasearch. The issue isn't necessarily timing, but whether Airbnb can offer AI products that are better than its rivals.

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Sep 30, 2026 · bySkift Airlines

Airbnb is adding a personalized map and other discovery tools

The rental service is getting more social and more AI.

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Sep 30, 2026 · byEngadget

Airbnb adds AI search, more social features

Airbnb is also launching new services such as meal delivery and laundry in select locations

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Sep 30, 2026 · byTechCrunch

Vacation homes were once real estate's hottest play. Now they're a nightmare.

Vacation homes that might have once sparked bidding wars are now languishing on the market or taking huge price cuts as the Airbnb boom cools off.

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Sep 30, 2026 · byBusiness Insider

Vrbo to Double Commissions as It Plays Catch-Up to Airbnb

Airbnb and Booking.com charge no guest fees. But Vrbo has stated that it will keep guest fees, although the amounts will be flexible. That lack of specificity will stoke host anger because this gives hosts little visibility into the actual prices their guests will have to pay.

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Sep 29, 2026 · bySkift Airlines

Trump launches America.gov, AI-powered government services hub

President Trump launched a website Tuesday that uses artificial intelligence to help Americans navigate the federal government and find information and services. Trump touted the website, America.gov, during an event at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington. He thanked Joe Gebbia, the Airbnb co-founder who now leads the National Design Studio (NDS) and services…

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Sep 29, 2026 · byThe Hill

Airbnb CEO on Hotels, Cars, and Flights: ‘I Had to Get Over My Ideology’

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky didn't address at length his changing views about Airbnb experiences, but there, too, he's softened his old religion about them having to be unique, and has added mainstream tours and activities.

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Sep 28, 2026 · bySkift Airlines

Uber Is Coming for STR. Airbnb Has an AI Agent Coming.

On Monday's ⁠Good Morning Hospitality, A Skift Podcast⁠, ⁠Brandreth Canaley⁠, ⁠Michael Goldin⁠, and ⁠Jamie Lane⁠ recap sessions from Skift Global Forum that every STR operator should be paying attention to.

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Sep 28, 2026 · bySkift Airlines

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he spends three hours a day on recruitment—and if his hiring managers don’t like his input, he tells them to leave

'I probably spend three hours a day recruiting,' Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says. And he admits he stole the idea from his friend, ChatGPT boss Sam Altman.

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Sep 28, 2026 · byFortune

Alexander Ludwig on ‘Unabomber’ Movie, His ‘Hunger Games’ Death Scene and ‘White Lotus’ Season 4: ‘It’s F—ing Wild’

Alexander Ludwig is meeting me on Zoom from a small cafe in the south of France. “Apologies, but my internet connection in my Airbnb is so terrible,” he says. “Hopefully it doesn’t get too loud.” Then he cracks, “This is my really hard life right now.” Life is anything but hard for the 34-year-old actor. […]

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Sep 25, 2026 · byVariety

Brian Chesky says AI helped him solve a problem many CEOs face: not knowing ‘what the hell's going on in our companies’

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said he used AI to build a "brain" that lets him track what's happening inside the company while cutting his meetings in half.

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Sep 24, 2026 · byBusiness Insider

Brian Chesky Commits to Launching an AI Agent in 2027

Airbnb has talked for years about becoming an AI concierge. Now Brian Chesky has put a 2027 date on it — and he says the interface won’t look like a typical chatbot.

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Sep 24, 2026 · bySkift Airlines

Booking CEO: Building the AI Travel Agent Isn’t the Hard Part

Booking Holdings has to navigate pressure from AI upstarts, competition from Airbnb, and antitrust-minded courts, all while running five AI bets at once.

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Sep 23, 2026 · bySkift Airlines

Airbnb’s Pivot: Inside Its New Push Into Hotels

It's shaping up to be Airbnb's biggest new business. Hotel operators who've joined are liking the new customer pool so far. But how long can it stay exclusive?

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Sep 21, 2026 · bySkift Airlines

First-time homebuyers get help from Airbnb in New York City

The initiative is supported by a $600,000 grant from Airbnb over three years

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Sep 21, 2026 · byHousingWire

What Uber and Airbnb Reveal About Expanding Beyond the Core

Uber has frequency and Airbnb has travel intent; their expansion into hotels will show which advantage travels further.

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Sep 20, 2026 · bySkift Airlines

1 in 3 Gen Z and millennials are stuck in their parents’ home—now, Airbnb is swooping in with a $250 million fund for affordable rental homes

A record 25.2 million U.S. adults under the age of 35 lived with their parents last year. Airbnb is hoping to be “part of the solution” for affordable housing.

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Sep 16, 2026 · byFortune