Airbnb Now Offers Room Service- And It’s a Win for Biz Travelers, and Freelancers
This week, Airbnb made one of its boldest moves yet: the launch of Airbnb Services, a new platform feature that allows travelers to book curated lifestyle experiences and professional services directly through the app. The initial rollout includes everything from massages and facials to personal trainers, private chefs, hairstylists, and photographers, now available in 260 cities around the world.
While Airbnb has long been synonymous with accommodations, this expansion signals a clear shift in its ambitions. It’s no longer just about where you stay—but how you live, work, and unwind wherever you are.
For remote workers and business travelers, this new layer of on-demand convenience is especially timely. One of the biggest challenges of working while traveling is maintaining a rhythm of comfort, wellness, and productivity. With Airbnb Services, it’s now possible to enhance your remote workday with small luxuries: a massage between Zoom calls, a chef-prepared dinner after a long work session, or a quick personal training session to re-energize between meetings.
It’s essentially room service for the work-from-anywhere era, only better tailored to your schedule and tastes.
This new service offering is also a win for freelancers and service providers. Airbnb is actively inviting chefs, wellness professionals, estheticians, photographers, personal trainers, and other skilled creatives to become “service hosts.” With many offerings priced affordably (some starting under $50), professionals now have a chance to plug into Airbnb’s global user base and generate new income streamswithout needing to own a property or offer overnight stays.
This truly shows Airbnb’s evolution of the platform into a full lifestyle ecosystem. And for those of us who travel for work or blend work with play, it’s a welcome development. Imagine a world where your next work trip includes a facial booked through Airbnb, a photo session for fresh headshots in a new city, and a gourmet meal delivered while you finish up your client deck. It’s a more seamless, luxurious, and human-centric way to navigate life on the go.
At Adventurely, we’re always excited by innovations that support the remote work lifestyle, and Airbnb’s new rollout feels like strong step toward more thoughtful, flexible travel.
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