Why not just go out and have your own experience and be guided by your own sense of adventure? Rent a bike and just explore. Stumbling upon new things without an app or a guide book is one of the greatest joys of traveling.
The usual response to this question is "well I only have a few days or my time is really limited." Which means you aren't going to "live like a local anyway" if you only have 72 hours.
The places actual locals frequent will now become boxes to be ticked on a "live like a local curated airbnb experience." And there will be lines of people all trying to have the "local experience" just as you are. And these are the people you will end up meeting and talking to. The actual locals will have gotten fed up and started going elsewhere.
This article is worth a read, I think someone posted it here a while back:
Your too late. I live 3 minutes walk from a tourist destination so my airbnb business is good. 9/10 locals don't hang out there despite good prices and tons of bars.
Only a few of my guests hit up places locals go to...if they're decent they get tons of tourist anyway.
>Why not just go out and have your own experience and be guided by your own sense of adventure? Rent a bike and just explore. Stumbling upon new things without an app or a guide book is one of the greatest joys of traveling.
I'd say nearly all my guest do that. I feel like I have to pull teeth to give them a quick 15 minute walking orientation tour to save them time.
People don't like making choices. It is a cognitive burden especially if you're in a new and unusual place. Unusual to you, not the locals obviously. So having a guide can help and when you revisit the place you can go on a more freeform adventure.
I think this is a pretty good idea but not sure how I feel about AirBnB monopolizing the thing. If there is some kind of exclusivity component then the aggregation of "experiences" on a single platform is not beneficial in the long run.
>"People don't like making choices. It is a cognitive burden especially if you're in a new and unusual place"
This is a rather blanket statement and you haven't supported it with any evidence. I also don't believe this is true at all.
I don't think there are many people who spend money and time planning a trip and then fly to to some far off place and upon arriving views exploring the place that they traveled to "a burden." Those that do tend to either not travel for leisure or else travel to the same places again and again or maybe opt for package holidays.
"and when you revisit the place you can go on a more freeform adventure."
Many people never revisit the same places especially the ones really far away. In fact a common refrain among travelers is "I would love to get back there"
The usual response to this question is "well I only have a few days or my time is really limited." Which means you aren't going to "live like a local anyway" if you only have 72 hours.
The places actual locals frequent will now become boxes to be ticked on a "live like a local curated airbnb experience." And there will be lines of people all trying to have the "local experience" just as you are. And these are the people you will end up meeting and talking to. The actual locals will have gotten fed up and started going elsewhere.
This article is worth a read, I think someone posted it here a while back:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12325104/airbnb-aesthetic-g...