Photo Credit: CarTrawler's Dublin headquarters. CarTrawler
Airbnb's car rental business would be more of a win if it did the hard work to establish direct relationships with the car-rental companies themselves.
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One month after Skift broke the news that Airbnb partnered with Ireland-based CarTrawler for car rentals, here's a behind-the-scenes update and how the partnership works, according to a source familiar with the operation.
Airbnb's car rentals are hosted on CarTrawler, which has direct relationships with car rental companies — the same arrangement Uber once relied on before building its own direct relationships, a more lucrative setup than going through a middleman like CarTrawler.
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