Airbnb, a community driven marketplace, has partnered with the corporate division of Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG) to provide customers with more options when travelling for business.
With five different corporate travel brands, FCTG corporate offers a broad range of travel management services for organisations across Australia and New Zealand. The new partnership with Airbnb means that FCTG’s corporate brands will now have an unrivalled pool of accommodation options to offer its corporate customers.
FCTG’s corporate brands, including FCm Travel Solutions, Corporate Traveller, Campus Travel, as well as Stage and Screen, will have access to Airbnb for Business. The new accommodation offerings will give corporate customers access to more than three million listings worldwide, which are available to be booked through the home-sharing platform.
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Since its founding in 2008, Airbnb hosts have welcomed more than 180 million guest arrivals at Airbnb listings worldwide. Approximately 10 percent of all travellers on Airbnb are business travellers, and the number of business trips on Airbnb tripled in 2016.
Through this partnership, FCTG’s corporate travel brands will have access to Airbnb’s third-party booking tool. Travel managers and employees taking the trip will be able to see trip details, make changes to the reservation, and message the Airbnb host with questions about the listing or neighbourhood.
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“Customers’ needs and preferences in the corporate travel sector are constantly evolving, and this agreement will deliver interesting new accommodation options that will appeal to sections of our customer base,” says Andrew Flannery, FCTG’s executive general manager of corporate travel. “It will benefit our corporate customers who are travelling to locations where there may currently be an under-supply of suitable hotel rooms. We are currently talking with a number of clients about the range of opportunities that Airbnb offers for travellers.”
Airbnb listings will be available to Campus Travel and Stage and Screen in the coming weeks, and then progressively introduced later to FCm Travel Solutions and Corporate Traveller.
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