Airbnb offers luxury Polynesias French Riviera villas: Airbnb now offers luxury villas on the French Riviera and in Polynesia!

Airbnb has just announced that you can now book on the platform luxury villas worldwide, from the French Riviera to Polynesia. The offer called Airbnb Luxury account at launch 2000 housing on the platform. But if you are interested, you will have to have your pockets full: on average, the price per week would be about 14 000 dollars (12 000 euros) the week, according to Bloomberg, and goes up to 1 million dollars for a private atoll in Tahiti with 50 people available. You can see the housing offers here. We have counted seven in France to date, with a majority of mountain chalets.

For the time being, these are mostly luxury holiday homes in New Zealand, Tuscany, Provence or an eight-bedroom villa on the Turks and Caicos Islands. north of the Dominican Republic. In town, Airbnb offers apartments and houses of exception in London and Los Angeles but warns that it should offer in the coming months in a dozen cities including Paris. Residents will not pay for the only housing. Airbnb also offers high-end services, such as booking a table at a secluded restaurant in Bali, a private chef or on-site massages..

Airbnb offers luxury Polynesias French Riviera villas

6 million offers in total on the platform including 4,000 castles

Airbnb says in its release that in 2018, the number of bookings for homes worth at least $ 1,000 per night has increased by more than 60%. This arrival on the luxury market was in fact expected for nearly two years and the takeover of the Canadian company Luxury Retreats for less than 300 million dollars. Today, it is therefore the integration of Luxury Retreats offers in its own search results. Airbnb has six million listings on its platform for booking and renting apartments between individuals, including more than 4,000 castles. But the acquisition of Luxury Retreats will enhance its appeal to affluent customers, who seek to rent holiday homes for a long time in places considered as more traditional holiday destinations.

With this luxury offer, Airbnb is moving away from its original concept of sharing homes between individuals. These rich customers will remain marginal in terms of volume but it is a clientele that is willing to spend a lot of money to have maximum comfort and have a personalized experience. And the San Francisco startup, created 11 years ago and expected to go public this year, continues to diversify. She now looks to the more traditional hospitality market for her business customers, pondering how to compete with travel agency sites such as Expedia or Last Minute with flight + hotel packages.

In France, Airbnb is fighting a legal battle with the City of Paris. The latter has sued the tourist rental platform in early 2019, which it accuses of not respecting the law governing the sector, Airbnb risk a 12.5 million euros fine.