Planning your vacation? Airbnb plays tour guide with its updated For You tab

By Lulu Chang May 21, 2017

san francisco airbnb listings — Image used with permission by copyright holder

Finding suitable lodgings may be the hardest part of traveling, but deciding how to make the most of your time on vacation can be a challenge, too. Now, you can solve both problems with a single solution by way of Airbnb. Earlier this week, the vacation rentals site announced a redesign to the online Airbnb experience, including a new For You tab, which promises to offer “a personalized doorway to discover homes to stay in and things to do — all in one place when you first open up the app or hop on the website.”

Now, the For You tab has become more intelligent and more personalized to your specific vacation needs. Whereas the recommendations tool previously provided suggestions based on travelers’ locations, it now integrates where travelers are in their planning process. For example, if you know that you’ll be visiting Crete at the end of the summer, you can figure out what activities are in peak season, and what spontaneous excursions you might embark upon when you’re there.

Recommended Videos

For You has gone live for travelers searching for, traveling to, or currently soaking up the scene in Cape Town, Florence, Los Angeles, London, Miami, Paris, Tokyo, Barcelona, and San Francisco. In the last two destinations, Airbnb says it’s trying out another For You feature that “takes inspiration to the next level by providing fresh, interesting context centered around passion areas like food, music or the great outdoors.”

With this launch, Airbnb has taken on the role of tour guide, promising to offer vacationers a list of the “great hits” a city has to offer, based on individual interests. “Whether you’re looking for something to do tonight or plotting out the trip of a lifetime, For You adapts to where you are and what you’re looking for, making planning your trip inspiring and delightful,” Airbnb says.

The site is said to be adding the feature to more cities in months to come, so start planning your vacation now.

Topics

Former Digital Trends Contributor

Fascinated by the effects of technology on human interaction, Lulu believes that if her parents can use your new app…

Computing

How to change margins in Google Docs

Laptop Working from Home

When you create a document in Google Docs, you may need to adjust the space between the edge of the page and the content --- the margins. For instance, many professors have requirements for the margin sizes you must use for college papers.

You can easily change the left, right, top, and bottom margins in Google Docs and have a few different ways to do it.

Computing

What is Microsoft Teams? How to use the collaboration app

A close-up of someone using Microsoft Teams on a laptop for a videoconference.

Online team collaboration is the new norm as companies spread their workforce across the globe. Gone are the days of primarily relying on group emails, as teams can now work together in real time using an instant chat-style interface, no matter where they are.

Using Microsoft Teams affords video conferencing, real-time discussions, document sharing and editing, and more for companies and corporations. It's one of many collaboration tools designed to bring company workers together in an online space. It’s not designed for communicating with family and friends, but for colleagues and clients.

Computing

Microsoft Word vs. Google Docs

A person using a laptop that displays various Microsoft Office apps.

For the last few decades, Microsoft Word has been the de facto standard for word processors across the working world. That's finally starting to shift, and it looks like one of Google's productivity apps is the heir apparent. The company's Google Docs solution (or to be specific, the integrated word processor) is cross-platform and interoperable, automatically syncs, is easily shareable, and perhaps best of all, is free.

However, using Google Docs proves it still has a long way to go before it can match all of Word's features -- Microsoft has been developing its word processor for over 30 years, after all, and millions still use Microsoft Word. Will Google Docs' low barrier to entry and cross-platform functionality win out? Let's break down each word processor in terms of features and capabilities to help you determine which is best for your needs.
How does each word processing program compare?
To put it lightly, Microsoft Word has an incredible advantage over Google Docs in terms of raw technical capability. From relatively humble beginnings in the 1980s, Microsoft has added new tools and options in each successive version. Most of the essential editing tools are available in Google Docs, but users who are used to Word will find it limited.