Airbnb start building community new ideas will lead to more business opportunities

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Airbnb began a small towns and their plans to build houses, and rent on the platform, but they object to these houses are defined as "hotel", but "Community Centre". On August 5, according to the Business Insider reports, Airbnb has released a new design studio in Samara, to "explore new attitudes of sharing and trust", which is the first project in Japan NARA Yoshino, named "Ji Yeshan House".

The Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia are responsible for this project. House has a kitchen, Public restaurant, public living room, and bedroom. Rental on bedroom on Airbnb, open to tourists around the world.

Houses and furniture materials are taken from the local, the House is located in the center of Nara Prefecture, the transportation is convenient, you can arrive in Osaka, Kyoto, and by 1.5 hours by train, or take two hours to get to Nagoya. Airbnb not agree to call it the "hotel", however Airbnb for the functional description of the new project hosting wonderful but also very vague: "we can't expect people to each scene has resonance, feeling arises spontaneously. So how do we build that kind of stuff? Seems too impossible, because to consider identity, government relations, socio-economic factors, cultural value, family dynamics, interpersonal factors influence. Airbnb's designs for the stranger and share his experiences, Samara attempts to take into account these factors, circumstances, create new experiences, naturally inspired user response.

 On Airbnb, a new project to understand the company Fast Company Design described "Ji Yeshan House": "Joe Gebbia's team and architects Go Hasegawa had designed a Community Centre for tourists accommodation--which provides a meeting place for community, and community residents can entertain visitors like a master.

"Fast Company Design describes the House as a new Community Centre. "The owners can gain economic benefits, as well as fun. "Gebbia said," this is a way that people in the community to help each other, and this way is in the form of an architectural entity.

"To say this is one of the commercial use of real estate, held by local staff, visitors and accommodation expenses. Airbnb has been advocating that people don't just go to a place, but to be there "life".

Shaping it very carefully, "Ji Yeshan House" image: with the craftsman's name engraved on the wood of the House, the land was sponsored by the local village. "In my vision, Western tourists walked into the room at that moment, began to interact with the local community. If you want to visit the winery of Qing dynasty, chopsticks factory, or a foot, where locals.

"Gebbia said.

This project is the public welfare nature of, "Ji Yeshan House" revenue per booking will be handed over to the community, helping to address Japan Society's ageing.

Airbnb company said in a statement: "Ji Yeshan House" is not only to provide a physical space, but to illustrate a simple truth: people need community.

But as a pursuit of profit-making commercial enterprise, Airbnb told Fast Company, there will be more such houses in the pipeline, in small village with more practice. Samara plans will extended to such community centres more are reducing the resources of the small town.

Joe Gebbia told Fast Company, "since the beginning of this project, we have heard from the United Kingdom, China, and Korea, and Spain, and France and Italy's voice, which also has the same problem. According to a Bloomberg report, according to a report to the United States Delaware file disclosure, Airbnb plan raised $850 million, financing Airbnb valuation approaching $30 billion. In 2015, Airbnb said its annual revenue to $900 million, and some analysts said Airbnb in 2017 is profitable.

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