May 16, 2020,
Your home is where your creative mind should be.
In an ideal world.
Imagine if you could build your dream home with style and creativity that would satisfy your every whim, practical or otherwise.
For the inside of the home, we have HGTV.
HGTV, Home & Garden Television, is an American pay television channel that is owned by Discovery, Inc. The network primarily broadcasts reality programming related to home improvement and real estate.
Get this, as of February 2015, approximately 95,628,000 American households (82.2% of households with television) receive HGTV.
In 2016, HGTV overtook CNN as the third most-watched cable channel in the United States, behind Fox News and ESPN.
HGTV was honored with the Academy of Achievement Award for their significant impact on the home and garden décor industry at the 22nd Annual Accessories Resource Team (ARTS) gala event on January 2, 2011.
In 2012, HGTV won the Dixon Award for Best TV Channel.
For some of us who are now empty nest, when we had our children in the home, we constantly turned to HGTV for some very creative and budget friendly ideas on how to stage and decorate our home.
It was a ton of creative fun.
Sometimes you can find a wonderful home away from home and leave it to another San Francisco entrepreneurial team to show you the way.
San Francisco’s Airbnb is just that team.
Airbnb, Inc. is an online marketplace for arranging or offering lodging, primarily homestays, or tourism experiences.
Here an interesting aspect to this. The company does not own any of the real estate listings, nor does it host events; it acts as a broker, receiving commissions from each booking.
The organization was conceived after its founders put an air mattress in their living room, effectively turning their apartment into a bed and breakfast, in order to offset the high cost of rent in San Francisco.
Talk about being HGTV creative.
Airbnb is a shortened version of its original name, AirBedandBreakfast.com.
Airbnb provides a platform for hosts to accommodate guests with short-term lodging and tourism-related activities.
Guests can search for lodging using filters such as lodging type, dates, location, and price, and can search for specific types of homes, such as bed and breakfasts, unique homes, and vacation homes.
Hosts provide prices and other details for their rental or event listings, such as the allowed number of guests, home type, rules, and amenities.
At their own home news.airbnb.com, they share their operations as only they can, “Airbnb is one of the world’s largest marketplaces for unique, authentic places to stay and things to do, offering over 7 million accommodations and 40,000 handcrafted activities, all powered by local hosts. An economic empowerment engine, Airbnb has helped millions of hospitality entrepreneurs monetize their spaces and their passions while keeping the financial benefits of tourism in their own communities.
With more than half a billion guest arrivals to date, and accessible in 62 languages across 220+ countries and regions, Airbnb promotes people-to-people connection, community and trust around the world.”
Very impressive.
Female Competition International (FCI) is very committed to empowering woman and we appreciate how Airbnb acts upon that same spirit.
They add, “Since 2008, Airbnb’s community of women has been creating meaningful connections and fostering transformative experiences through travel. Around the world, more than 54 million women have traveled on Airbnb1, and our women hosts have earned nearly $15 billion in the last year alone2 by opening their homes and sharing their passions — and this is only the beginning. In the last 12 years, women’s percentage of five-star reviews has grown to 83 percent3, with average review ratings at 4.77 stars.4
Women also make up more than half of Airbnb’s community globally.5 An island in the English Channel, Jersey, has the highest percentage of women Home hosts at 68 percent, and in New Zealand, women make up 64 percent of the Airbnb Stay host community.6 Our women hosts are also pioneers in turning their passions into magical Experiences for guests, with women making up 61 percent of Experience hosts in Ukraine, 57 percent in the UK, and 56 percent each in China, Finland, and Thailand.7
Airbnb’s women hosts are blazing trails in hospitality, especially in host cities for the upcoming Olympic Games.”
So about that creativity that is flowing through your blood to build and design your imaginative dream home.
Airbnb can help you with that.
Please enjoy.
Airbnb Launches $1 Million Fund for the World's Most Unique Home Ideas
Style Icon Billy Porter and Renowned Architecture Firm MVRDV Join Global Search for the Most Unique Livable Spaces
SAN FRANCISCO, March 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Airbnb is searching for the world's wildest home ideas – and has launched a $1 million fund to make them a reality. The Unique Airbnb Fund is the company's first-ever $1 million program designed to find and help finance the most unconventional and unusual livable spaces on the planet. Ten recipients of the Unique Airbnb Fund will be selected by an expert panel of design and style innovators, including Emmy®, Tony and GRAMMY Award-winning actor Billy Porter, Airbnb Superhost Kristie Wolfe, of the famed Big Idaho Potato Hotel, and global and cutting-edge architecture firm MVRDV.
Starting today, design enthusiasts can submit their proposals at airbnb.com/uniquefund. All submissions will be scored against criteria based on creativity, feasibility, sustainability and social good (more found here). Inspired by the entrepreneurial spirit of the company's three co-founders, the Unique Airbnb Fund is meant to enable anyone with an extraordinary house idea to design and build it into a reality, and share it with travelers all over the world.
"The only thing better than pushing the boundaries of style, is empowering others to do the same," says style icon, Billy Porter. "I'm thrilled to join Airbnb in this global search for the most outrageous, spectacular home ideas ever. I can't wait to see these concepts developed by design lovers from around the world firsthand."
"The Unique Airbnb Fund is a great initiative that makes hospitality exciting. It will empower people to create new spaces with daring, imaginative and fantastic architecture," says MVRDV partner Fokke Moerel. "Personal wunderkammers will be created for guests to appreciate and be inspired by."
Searches for unexpected and unique spaces – such as shepherds huts, windmills and tiny houses – have increased by nearly 70 percent over last year on Airbnb.* Some of the most booked listings of all time include domes, RVs, treehouses, and yurts across the world.** Applicants can draw inspiration from a plethora of unconventional Airbnb stays, including:
- An Elephant-Sized Stay on the Jersey Shore (Margate City, New Jersey)
- The Boot - Fairytale Accommodation (Nelson, New Zealand)
- Big Idaho Potato Hotel (Boise, Idaho)
- Camaya Bali Suboya - Magical Bamboo House (Bali, Indonesia)
- Sheep Wagon at Shash Dine (Page, Arizona)
- Beautiful Dome with Mountain Views (Rio Negro, Argentina)
- UFO Futuro styled Flying Saucer (Redberth, UK)
- Cabane Spa Zen (Raray, France)
- Cabana Floripa (Santa Catarina, Brazil)
A chance to enter the Unique Airbnb Fund is now open until 11:59pm EST on April 15, 2020. The ten winners will be selected by the panel of judges mentioned above by May 15, 2020. For more information, see the Official Rules.
*Based on internal Airbnb data measuring year-over-year growth of searches for unique listings as of February 2020 vs. 2019.
**Based on internal Airbnb data measuring the most booked unique listings as of February 2020.
SOURCE Airbnb, Inc.
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