Dear subscribers,
Do you remember your first rental on Airbnb?
It was, for me, in the summer of 2012, almost ten years ago.
"
Grazie mille!"
Vi aspetto con molto piacere!
Hi!
»Mauro and Alessandro had written to me as soon as the reservation was completed.
Arrived in this small apartment in the historic center of Lecce, preoccupied with the services that I was going to find there, I discovered hosts who were both considerate and discreet, who had tastefully furnished the room with terrace rented on the top floor of a typical building.
Chez Alessandro and Mauro in Lecce, vintage photo.
Benjamin Ferran
Ten years later, Alessandro and Mauro still offer their apartment on Airbnb.
The start-up, launched in San Francisco in 2007 and floated on the stock market in December 2020, is worth more than $ 120 billion.
Without owning any hotel, it revolutionized tourism to the point of becoming the first global capitalization of the sector.
It overcame the Covid crisis at the cost of massive job cuts (25% of its workforce) and has just completed the best quarter
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