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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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2023-11-03
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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 late 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] According to the passage, it is implied that Airbnb______.
选项
A、is a large-scale hotel chain in America
B、has just moved to San Francisco
C、is not worth investing
D、is expanding its business
答案
D
解析
细节题。根据第二段最后一句可知,Airbnb现在的定位远不止是让一个人与其他5个人在跳骚帝国旅馆以每晚26美金的价格住在伦敦,故选[D]。第一段第一句提到,Airbnb宣布开始追赶大型连锁酒店的脚步,故可知Airbnb现在还不是一家大型连锁酒店,因此[A]错误,故排除;根据第二段第一句可知,Airbnb的总部设在旧金山,但是没有说刚刚搬到旧金山,故排除[B];根据第二段第一句可知,作者认为为该公司投资3.26亿美元的投资者并非是犯迷糊,故排除[C]。
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