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Late last year, Airbnb announced that it’s going after the major hotel chain
Late last year, Airbnb announced that it’s going after the major hotel chain
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2023-10-30
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Late last year, Airbnb announced that it’s going after the major hotel chains—which at first sounded kind of cute, like a precocious Little League pitcher(投手)saying he’s going to strike out Miguel Cabrera.
But when CEO Brian Chesky laid out his thinking for me in Airbnb’s new, funky headquarters in San Francisco, I thought the investors who have pumped $326 million into the company might not be too dim. Airbnb is becoming much more than a way to spend $26 a night to sleep in London with five other people at The Imperial Fleapit.
In fact, Airbnb is looking like a proof point of a trend that has been getting a lot of attention lately. Some refer to it as the DIY—for do it yourself—movement. Chesky uses the term "decentralized production(分散式生产)." Marc Andreessen hit on the concept in a manifesto entitled "Why Software Is Eating the World?"
It all points to the same idea: Information technology is eroding the power of large-scale mass production. We’re instead moving toward a world of massive numbers of small producers offering unique stuff—and of consumers who reject mass-produced stuff. The Internet, software, 3D printing, social networks, cloud computing and other technologies are making this economically feasible—in fact, desirable.
The hotel industry—and the way Airbnb thinks about it—is an example of how that is playing out.
There is a fundamental truth about big hotel chains that is only now being exposed in the Internet age: Hotel chains grew out of a lack of information.
In the middle of last century, cars and highways made the world far more mobile. Many more people traveled to towns they didn’t know, and they needed places to sleep. They had no way to know which hotel or boarding house might be nice or offer amenities they wanted. Travel guides, like Mobil’s, popped up in the 1950s, but for the most part information remained scarce.
Chains took advantage of that data deficit. If you knew a Holiday Inn in one town, you knew the Holiday Inn in the next town would be roughly the same. The brand’s motto played off this: "The best surprise is no surprise. " The uniformity and comfort of a chain trumped the risk of an unknown, independent place.
As chains got bigger, they could afford to widely advertise—a way to spread more information about the consistency of their hotels. Independents couldn’t keep up They had limited ways to get information to travelers. As long as this big information gap existed, chains grew and independents struggled. The gap drove chains to offer uniform accommodations at scale—and we got today’s hospitality industry, dominated by the likes of Hilton, Marriott and Starwood.
Chesky got to thinking about this when his iate grandfather told him Airbnb reminded him of his childhood, when his family would arrive in towns and stay at boarding houses. Chesky thought: If the Internet was around back then, would hotel chains as we know them have been created? "And the answer is absolutely not, " Chesky says. "I’m not saying there wouldn’t be hotels, but they wouldn’t look like they do today. " [br] What is the relationship between the example of Airbnb and that of Little League pitcher?
选项
A、Analogy.
B、Comparison.
C、Supplement.
D、Contradiction.
答案
A
解析
第一段提到,Airbnb宣布开始追赶大型连锁酒店的脚步——乍一听感觉很有意思,这就好像一位早熟的少年棒球联合会投手宣称要将米格尔·卡布瑞拉三振出局一样,由此可知,这两个例子之间的关系是“类比”,故选[A]。[B]“比较”、[C]“补充”和[D]“矛盾”均可排除。
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