Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky spoke with Skift CEO Rafat Ali at Skift Global Forum 2021. The two discussed the theme “The Future of Human Mobility and the Long Term Affects on Travel.”
You can watch a full video of their discussion as well as read a transcript of it, below.
Rafat Ali: Thank you, Brian, for being here.
Brian Chesky: Thank you.
Ali: I hear this as your first in person event you’re doing since the pandemic.
Chesky: Yeah, probably two years.
Ali: Wow, thank you again.
Chesky: Lot of Zooms before this.
Ali: I appreciate it. And obviously you’ve been in New York, I think for the last few days as well.
Chesky: Doing a little press.
Ali: Doing a little press. You have been talking about travel revolution. One of the things that you and I were talking about yesterday was many of the speakers that are going to come over the next two days have said that the travel industry is coming back and a…