Airbnb and Raiffeisen: quiet and loud on the go

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Airbnb is on the rise again. Indian tourists, for example, booked 50% more overnight stays in the first quarter of this year than in the same period last year. Given such sharp fluctuations in the markets, another piece of news would almost have gone unnoticed: The key performance indicators for hotels on Airbnb are growing at twice the rate of the overall business. That means: Hotel bookings are making up for the decline in short-term rentals. It is not yet clear exactly what the hotel strategy will look like. But this: Airbnb has a technical infrastructure that helps to integrate hotels on a large scale at low cost and keep booking fees down. Sarah Douag on the quiet overhaul of the Airbnb platform and the power of its data.

The Raiffeisen Association of Salzburg (RVS) is also quietly making its way through the region. It provides funding for almost 70 percent of tourism businesses and tourism infrastructure, such as cable cars. Tourism makes a significant contribution to the gross regional product and is responsible for 40,000 full-time jobs. Great: at last, a main bank for SMEs! Yes and no: The bank acts as a hotelier itself and can compare its own figures with those of the independent hotels applying for credit. No wonder the RVS continues to encourage hoteliers to invest in its own "forum". And two success stories are presented: that of the Brandlhof in Austria and that of Europapark in Rust.

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