Airbnb is becoming more of a lifestyle brand and company, about more than just shelter. I find Airbnb's more exciting and interesting to stay in over hotels and this new direction also helps tourists not feel like tourists. More details in @jessicaplautz's Mashable article.
The app was just announced and should be released any minute now.See more
@rrhoover@jessicaplautz We'll see if the implementation works and if the platform gets users on both sides, but they've got one thing right: my motivation as a traveler is definitely to experience new places as if I was a local, and other travel resources don't quite get me there.
@rrhoover@jessicaplautz this is great. I lived in South America during december via AirBnB, and my host left us with a guide book he's manually been building like this. It totally changed my stay.
