Ayudá a los huéspedes de Airbnb Habitaciones a viajar como personas del lugar
Airbnb surgió como una opción económica para que los viajeros se alojaran en las casas de otras personas. La idea prosperó cuando los anfitriones y los huéspedes de todo el mundo empezaron a crear conexiones auténticas.
Las Habitaciones celebran esta tradición. Ahora más que nunca, los anfitriones ayudan a los huéspedes a viajar como personas del lugar. Lo hacen de muchas maneras: ofrecen consejos sobre a dónde ir, o se dejan llevar por la magia de lo inesperado.
Te contamos cómo tres anfitriones crearon conexiones inolvidables.
Compartí tus lugares locales favoritos
Para ayudar a los huéspedes a conocer tu zona, podés crear una guía para tu anuncio. Es una forma sencilla de compartir recomendaciones con los huéspedes. Los anfitriones que publican guías suelen recibir más reservas.
Muchos anfitriones también ofrecen recomendaciones en persona. Reed y su esposa, anfitriones de una habitación en Filadelfia, invitan a los huéspedes a compartir el momento de la cena los domingos. Reed prepara un guiso y les pregunta a los huéspedes qué les gustaría hacer a ellos. Luego comparte “lugares especiales no tan conocidos”, como el café del barrio que tiene paredes repletas de libros.
A veces, Reed invita a los huéspedes a salir a bailar, una de sus actividades preferidas. “Vamos con algunos huéspedes a un lugar latino para animar el ambiente un poco”, dice. Algunos huéspedes “ahora son como nuestros hijos”, agrega.
Making guests feel at home
Guests may book your room because your host profile creates a sense of familiarity, which can help guests feel comfortable staying with you.
Nicola, who hosts a room in Fitzroy, Australia, shares that she appreciates new cultures and cuisines. She’s found that some guests like to “hang out and feel like they’ve got a home here.”
She and her brother, a renowned chef in Melbourne, sometimes offer to cook meals with guests. “We’ve got a commercial kitchen, so they can roll out the pasta or the panini breads,” she says.
One group felt so at ease that they did yoga in Nicola’s living room. “It was great that they really enjoyed the space,” she says. Noting their interest in exercise, Nicola took them to a park nearby, where they spent an afternoon climbing trees and talking about other places to explore.
Embracing the unexpected
Think about how you’d like to interact with guests, and let them know what you prefer. If you’re up for socializing, your openness may lead to meaningful connections.
Garth, a host in Auckland, New Zealand, says welcoming guests allows him to spend more time with people from other cultures without traveling. He thought, “Let’s bring the people to me.”
One of Garth’s most memorable moments as a host happened with guests visiting from France. The mother asked if her son could watch him tinker in his garage workshop. “He thought everything I was doing was cool,” Garth says.
So Garth came up with a project they could do together. “We made a little boat, and we painted it,” he says. “It was really lovely, because he didn’t speak English, but we had this shared language.”
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