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Airbnb is not the enemy: Jesse Stein on the platform’s hotel strategy
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBHN editor Eloise Hanson chats to Airbnb’s global head of real estate Jesse Stein. They discuss what a hotel strategy looks like for the company, why now, and how the platform is trying to disrupt the distribution model.
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