雅思阅读生活：Airbnb

今天环球雅思小编给大家带来的是：生活小资讯

An Introduction about Airbnb 大家知道Airbnb吗？

Perhaps many people don’t know about Airbnb, however, many of my friends who study English and me have known about Airbnb. One of my friends from Wuhan made this as an example in his writing of TEM8 (sadly I didn’t T_T). Now, let me introduce about Airbnb to you all, with a hope that you can use it as a brilliant example in your writing of IELTS.

Airbnb is a website for people to rent out lodging. It has over 800,000 listings in 33,000 cities and 192 countries. Founded in August 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company is privately owned and operated by Airbnb, Inc.

Users of the site must register and create a personal online profile before using the site. Every property is associated with a host whose profile includes recommendations by other users, reviews by previous guests, as well as a response rating and private messaging system.

Airbnb mainly provides the services of tourist lodging, homestay, guest houses, short-term renting, etc, which is a hot choice of lodging industry in such countries as America and English. As for the market, firstly, the amount of the customers has been doubled through a year, growing from 15 million people to 35 million. Moreover, the services expanded and Airbnb had a several financing, the stock market evaluation increased from 7.8 million to 2 billion, recently even increased to 10 billion (2015). It is not difficult to figure out that the stock market evaluation will reach the line of 10 billion in this year.

In the recent time, Airbnb promote a new type of house for renting —— drifting room. Here comes the pictures . (Downward) It is not only a breakthrough in lodging concept but also an impressive image in the design style, which concludes a successful marketing.

环球雅思

或许很多人不知道Airbnb，但小编本人以及小编身边很多学英语的朋友都知道Airbnb这个东西，今年小编一位武汉的朋友考的专八一开始也是引用（虽然小编没有用这个为例子T_T），下面来为各位烤鸭科普一下Airbnb这个东西，希望各位烤鸭能够从中得到帮助，说不定能在雅思写作上举出这么一个高逼格的例子。：）

Airbnb是AirBed and Breakfast ("Air-b-n-b")的缩写,中文名：空中食宿。空中食宿是一家联系旅游人士和家有空房出租的房主的服务型网站，它可以为用户提供各式各样的住宿信息。

Airbnb成立于2008年8月，总部设在美国加州旧金山市。Airbnb是一个旅行房屋租赁社区

用户可通过网络或手机应用程序发布、搜索度假房屋租赁信息并完成在线预定程序。Airbnb用户遍布190个国家近34000个城市，发布的房屋租赁信息达到5万条。AirBnB被时代周刊称为“住房中的EBay”。

Airbnb主要是是提供旅游住宿、民宿、家庭旅馆、短租等之类的服务，然而Airbnb在英美那边实在是大热的一个住宿选择。市场方面，首先，2011年，Airbnb服务难以置信地增长了800%。其次，仅仅用了一年的时间，Airbnb的客户数翻了一倍，从2014年5月的1500万人增加到3500万人。还有，Airbnb虽然经过多次融资，但市场估值一直在攀升，从上市不久的780万美元增长到2012年的20多亿， Airbnb近几年也有过融资，2014年4月市场估值已经达到将近100亿美元，估计市场估值在今年已经达百亿单位。