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Airbnb announced this week that its growth in India tripled over the last 12 months, 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 the last one year. 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 185% increase in travellers from India and 184% increase in bookings in India (in-bound) from last 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.