Skift Take
Famous last words? Well, for travel industry’s sake coming from this brutal period, we hope not!
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky in New York City on Tuesday for the launch of the company’s new curated search and homepage/app, their biggest product update in a while. Besides the very upbeat message with this radical change in its product and Chesky’s upbeat message all through last year on travel going through a revolution post pandemic, he also doesn’t see a recession coming to travel.
I asked him about the tech layoffs happening all around him, general fears of a recession coming and its effect on the travel sector just coming out of the biggest hit it ever had as a result of the pandemic. He thinks travel won’t go through the larger recession, the summer will be blockbuster and he thinks travel has become such an aspirational thing, there is so much pent-up demand that people really want to travel no matter what, even…
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