“Business travel got a lot more personal in 2016,” said Certify CEO Robert Neveu in a statement. In terms of average room nights, business travelers stayed longer with Airbnb compared to traditional hotels: 4.51 nights at Airbnb venues compared to 2.58 nights at hotels. Assuming a similar or slightly improved growth rate, Certify expects Airbnb could approach the top 15 most expensed hotels sometime late next year. Among the top 15 hotels, Hampton Inn took the number one spot at 8.82 percent of expenses. ![]() While that was less than 1 percent of the total, its growth is still significant compared to traditional hotels. In 2016, Airbnb accounted for 0.27 percent of expenses and receipts in the hotel category overall. While the hotel category is still dominated by hotel chains like Hampton Inn, Marriott, Holiday Inn and Hilton, Airbnb has doubled its share of transactions each year since 2014. However, Uber’s Uber Eats service, which debuted in December 2015, has surpassed them all in the food delivery category, accounting for 6 percent of receipts and expenses for food delivery.Īnother sharing economy success story, Airbnb, has similarly made sharp inroads on traditional hotel expenses. That was followed by McDonalds, Panera Bread, Subway and Dunkin’ Donuts, in that order. Certify also tracks spending on meals on travel expense reports, and found that Starbucks accounted for 5.10 percent of expenses in the fourth quarter, averaging $12.62 per receipt.
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