Airbnb and Cuba: a match made in capitalist heaven
by Alan Yuhas from Technology | The Guardian on (#6A47)
The country offers Airbnb a unique opportunity with its many hosts who have long rented out homes and rooms to visitors from abroad
The home-rental company Airbnb has opened for business in Havana, bringing the sharing economy born in capitalism to communist Cuba as relations thaw with the United States.
Following President Obama's move to relax cold war-era travel restrictions in January, the company sent teams to meet with Cuba's many hosts who have long rented out homes and rooms - known as casas particulares - to visitors from abroad.
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