Just when we begin to prioritize localized foods, looking for homegrown and homemade products, over imported brands, we have been offered an alternative to hotels with excess reserves and corporate stays.

Increasingly, we hear Airbnb emerge in a conversation. It has become an element of conversation, a display of right, an additional layer of travel experience. This book is all about Airbnb, its scope, and how it manages a network of homes in more than 34,000 cities, represented by nonprofessionals seeking to open their private residence to international travelers.

It is important for you to know that Airbnb is always committed to match travelers with authentic experiences, continually challenging travel conventions and thinking beyond generic accommodations to revolutionize the way we stay and where we we meet. 

In fact, the Airbnb concept we know today goes back to a single email from one of the founders to another. This book will give you insights on how you can turn your place into "designer bed and breakfast", offering young designers who arrive in the city a place to sleep during a four-day event, complete with wireless internet connection, a small desk space, mat, and breakfast every morning.

When you take a quick look at Airbnb, you will find a colorful inventory of houses of all sizes and shapes, boats, tree houses, private islands - whatever Airbnb has - and for this reason, other vacation rental services have been dying to have an Airbnb API in their hands.

Like most APIs, Airbnb helps Airbnb and third parties speak the same dialect, which generates a new conversation that is mutually beneficial. In previous years, the Airbnb API was closed to external developers, which caused programmers to implement alternative integration methods such as proxies, scraping and black-hat programming.

Lastly, this is just a little synopsis of Airbnb - all you need to be able to maximize all the potentials of Airbnb are captured in this book.