{"id":78752,"date":"2017-02-16T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=78752"},"modified":"2017-04-07T15:13:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T19:13:11","slug":"airbnb-acquires-montreals-luxury-retreats-to-bolster-tourism-services","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/airbnb-acquires-montreals-luxury-retreats-to-bolster-tourism-services","title":{"rendered":"Airbnb Acquires Montreal&#8217;s Luxury Retreats to Bolster Tourism Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2017\/02\/09\/airbnb-acquire-montreals-luxury-retreats-expand-premium-travel\">we hinted at last week<\/a>, Airbnb has acquired Montreal-based Luxury Retreats International for upward of $300 million.<\/p>\n<p>With 4,000 properties in its portfolio, Luxury Retreats is Airbnb\u2019s largest acquisition to date. The company was started in 1999 by website developer Joe Poulin.<\/p>\n<p>The move is a blow to Canada&#8217;s homegrown tech sector but bolsters Airbnb\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2016\/11\/17\/airbnb-launches-trips\">tourism services<\/a>, which it has been expanding recently.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in San Francisco, Airbnb offers three million homes across 34,000 cities and 191 countries.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2017\/01\/11\/airbnb-construction-machinery-dozr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we hinted at last week, Airbnb has acquired Montreal-based Luxury Retreats International for upward of $300 million. With 4,000 properties in its portfolio, Luxury Retreats is Airbnb\u2019s largest acquisition to date. The company was started in 1999 by website developer Joe Poulin. The move is a blow to Canada&#8217;s homegrown tech sector but bolsters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":75517,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[60,273,361],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-78752","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News","tag-acquisition","tag-airbnb","tag-tourism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/78752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/78752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/75517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78752"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=78752"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=78752"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=78752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}