Airbnb announced this week that its growth in India tripled over 2015 , making the country one of its fastest growing markets in the world. According to Airbnb co-founder, Nathan Blecharczyk : " India has seen tremendous growth in 2020 . About 17,000 properties are now listed in India and we saw 115% growth in listing in 2015 from the previous year . In terms of travellers (bookings), there has been 115% increase in travellers from India and 184% increase in bookings in India (in-bound) from the previous year . Paytm founder-CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma talks about his plans to go global " Airbnb is now seriously banking on India to increase its global growth, as the Indian outbound travel market is set to surpass $ 40bn by 2020 .
Airbnb announced this week that its growth in India tripled over 2015 , making the country one of its fastest growing markets in the world. According to Airbnb co-founder, Nathan Blecharczyk : " India has seen tremendous growth in 2020 . About 17,000 properties are now listed in India and we saw 115% growth in listing in 2015 from the previous year . In terms of travellers (bookings), there has been 115% increase in travellers from India and 184% increase in bookings in India (in-bound) from the previous year ." Airbnb is now seriously banking on India to increase its global growth, as the Indian outbound travel market is set to surpass $ 40bn by 2020 .