Airbnb

Airbnb is a company that offers a home rental platform which enables people to list, find, and rent short-term lodging in 65,000 cities and over 191 countries around the world.

The company was founded by Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk in 2008 when two designers who had space to share hosted three travelers looking for a place to stay.

Airbnb's hosts list several kinds of properties, such as single rooms, suite of rooms, apartments, moored yachts, houseboats, entire houses and castle on the Airbnb website.

Airbnb operates in a way that it helps people to make sharing easy, enjoyable, and safe. The company verifies personal profiles and listings, maintains a smart messaging system so that hosts and guests can communicate with ease, and manages a trusted platform to obtain and transfer payments.

Airbnb launched Trips in 2016, a service that takes travelers out of their rentals for local tours and adventures in 20 countries and 30 cities around the world. With the company's effort to solve humanitarian issues, Airbnb launched an Open Homes program in 2017 that enables hosts to provide housing to refugees, displaced travelers, and people who are seeking for shelter after experiencing some forms of disasters.