April 11, 2015
Airbnb lands on Donald Trump's radar
The Internet is doing to hotels what it’s already done to everything from music business to journalism: undercutting the traditional business model.
Billionaire hotel developer Donald Trump knows this, and he told me he’s never seen such change in any industry before. It’s a potential generational change for the hotel and lodging industry, given that millennials are growing up in what has been dubbed the “sharing economy.”
Take a service like Airbnb, a website that allows property owners to rent…