Airbnb and Cuba: a match made in capitalist heaven

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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