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Partnering with Hello Alice to support entrepreneurs through hosting

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Key Takeaways

  • Airbnb is partnering with Hello Alice to offer its community of nearly a half-million diverse small business owners an interactive program designed to help them supplement their business income through hosting.
  • Hello Alice owners will learn how to create an Airbnb listing and how to use our hosting tools, and get tips from Superhosts.

Key Takeaways

  • Airbnb is partnering with Hello Alice to offer its community of nearly a half-million diverse small business owners an interactive program designed to help them supplement their business income through hosting.
  • Hello Alice owners will learn how to create an Airbnb listing and how to use our hosting tools, and get tips from Superhosts.

Hosting on Airbnb is a powerful economic tool that helps Hosts earn meaningful income, pay their bills and supports entrepreneurship. As the travel resurgence creates new financial opportunities, with new Hosts on Airbnb earning $6 billion in income since the start of the pandemic, Airbnb is committed to bringing the economic benefits of hosting to more diverse communities.

That’s why we are excited to partner with Hello Alice, a free online platform designed to help businesses launch and grow, to offer its community of nearly a half-million diverse small business owners an interactive program designed to help them supplement their business income through hosting. According to Hello Alice, nearly two-thirds of their small business owners identify as women and 68 percent identify as BIPOC. 

Through the educational program, now taking place, Hello Alice owners will learn how to create an Airbnb listing and how to use our hosting tools, as well as get tips and tricks from experienced Superhosts. 

“Hosting on Airbnb provides entrepreneurs like the Hello Alice community the opportunity to earn meaningful extra money to invest in their businesses, or provide an economic cushion to allow them to focus on starting or running their companies. We are delighted to collaborate with Hello Alice to support entrepreneurship and to welcome their community of diverse small business owners to our global community of Hosts,” said Catherine Powell, Airbnb’s Global Head of Hosting

“We are deeply committed to helping small business owners save money, make money or gain access to money. Our partnership with Airbnb is an exciting and creative opportunity for small business owners to learn more about an opportunity to supplement their business’s income with additional revenue streams.”

Elizabeth Gore, Co-founder and President of Hello Alice

Hello Alice owners who are already Airbnb Hosts shared how hosting has helped support them as entrepreneurs.

“I’ve found home is where the profit is. Hello Alice’s Airbnb Sprint can help you learn how becoming an Airbnb Host, even for your primary residence, can bring a revenue stream into your household, letting you focus on your main business,” said Kristen O’Grady, who owns a graphic design agency and has been hosting on Airbnb for three years. “I earn my income through my agency, Inkwell Communications, and my house earns its own income.”

“Airbnb has allowed me to obtain freedom and opportunity to help serve and help others while gaining my time and freedom back,” said Danielle Bryant, a consultant, who began hosting on Airbnb this year. “My family loves hosting our unique and amazing guests. Hello Alice is helping to highlight stories of regular people just like myself and others and giving us a chance to share our unique experiences.”

Airbnb and Hello Alice will run additional interactive programs in 2022, and we look forward to finding additional opportunities to support this diverse community of entrepreneurs. To learn more about hosting on Airbnb, click here.

About Hello Alice

Hello Alice is a free, multichannel platform that helps businesses launch and grow. With a community of nearly 500,000 business owners in all 50 states and across the globe, Hello Alice is building the largest network of owners in the country while tracking data and trends to increase the success rate for entrepreneurs. Our partners include enterprise business services, government agencies, and institutions looking to serve small- and medium-business owners to ensure increased revenues and promote scale. A Latina owned company, founded by Carolyn Rodz and Elizabeth Gore, we believe in business for all by providing access to all owners including women, people of color, veterans, and everyone with an entrepreneurial spirit. To learn more, visit www.helloalice.com, as well as Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.

About Airbnb

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 billion guest arrivals across over 220 countries and regions. Travel on Airbnb keeps more of the financial benefits of tourism with the people and places that make it happen. Airbnb has generated billions of dollars in earnings for Hosts, most of whom are individuals listing the homes in which they live. Among Hosts who report their gender, more than half are women, and one in five employed Hosts are either teachers or healthcare workers. Travel on Airbnb also has generated more than $4 billion in tax revenue around the world. Airbnb has helped advance more than 1,000 regulatory frameworks for short-term rentals, including in 80% of our top 200 geographies. In late 2020, to support our continued expansion and diversification, we launched the City Portal to provide governments with a one-stop shop that supports data sharing and compliance with local registration rules. We continue to invest in innovations and tools to support our ongoing work with governments around the world to advance travel that best serves communities.

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