Modern Travel · event 16 of 19

2008

Short-term letting platforms launch. Airbnb is founded in 2008 and within a decade has restructured urban accommodation, brought income to homeowners, and become a central factor in housing-cost disputes in a long list of cities.

The Modern Travel era

  1. 1900
  2. 1903
  3. 1930s
  4. 1936
  5. 1950
  6. 1957
  7. 1958
  8. 1960s
  9. 1962
  10. 1973
  11. 1978
  12. 1985
  13. 1989
  14. 1994
  15. 2001
  16. 2008
  17. 2016
  18. March 2020
  19. 2024

See the full timeline or read the short history of travel.