Business travelers opt for Airbnb listings instead of hotels

Kaba | April 7, 2015

April 07--Chip Wilcox, CEO of a small technology company in Singapore, travels to San Francisco a few times a year along with some employees to connect with potential customers and funders. Instead of a hotel, they rent an apartment through Airbnb. "It makes a lot more sense to have a place with a kitchen so we can cook; it feels more like home," said Wilcox. The space does double duty as an office, hosting meetings and round-the-clock coding sessions for his firm Temasys Communications, a platform for adding real-time video to websites and apps. Travelers who first used new services such as Airbnb and Uber outside of work are now using...