Airbnb’s Next Act: Tickets, Then a Wallet
Airbnb is hiring senior leaders to build a standalone ticketing business and a guest wallet as part of its next major expansion.
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- Airbnb is hiring to build a standalone ticketing and a guest wallet business.
- The ticketing expansion covers attractions, tours, and live events.
- The Wallet project is described as a new financial hub for guests.
- Airbnb is building in-house after passing on acquiring Tiqets.
After spending seven years watching the attractions ticketing sector from inside Tiqets, letting Expedia buy the company while taking a roughly $70 million gain on its stake, Airbnb is now hiring to build its own ticketing business from scratch.
According to job listings posted on its careers site in July, Airbnb is quietly building two major new operations: a standalone tickets business and a guest wallet. The company has not formally announced either initiative elsewhere.
- A product marketing and management leader for the Tickets team, spanning attractions, tours, and live events.
- A senior strategy and operations lead responsible for adding supply, selling tickets, and growing gross booking value.
- A product manager role for Wallet, described as Airbnb’s new financial hub for guests.
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Airbnb's push into ticketing and financial services addresses the fundamental challenge of platform frequency in travel. Because travelers typically open travel apps only during trip-planning periods, creating a financial hub and ticketing storefront encourages users to engage with the platform on a more frequent, ongoing basis.
The job postings explicitly call for experience with reservation systems, channel managers, and both primary and secondary ticketers, hinting that Airbnb’s ambitions may stretch beyond standard tours and attractions into live-event ticket resale.
Source: Skift
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