Airbnb rolls out luxury rentals and new benefits for users
Airbnb is once again shaking up how its customers find and book accommodations. At a press conference in San Francisco's Masonic Auditorium on Thursday, the company unveiled a slew of new reservation and website features including new property types, new rental tiers, and "Airbnb Collections" for large groups. The company also announced its commitment to reinvest within local communities through its revamped Superhost program which will launch later this year. Currently, Airbnb users can still only search for places to stay under the same three property types they've been able to over the past decade: Shard Space, Private Room and Entire Home. Those options are a bit dated given the wide variety of places the service now offers. As such, Airbnb is updating its property listings to also include Vacation Home, Unique Space (think treehouses), B&B, and Boutique for hotels. This should allow hosts to better differentiate their offerings from others while enabling u...