Airbnb customers are showing their solidarity with the Ukrainian people by booking reservations that they don’t plan on using.
An influx of bookings in the besieged country has raised $2 million for local residents in about a week, the San Francisco-based home rental company says (U.S.
dollars). In recent days, the campaign has picked up even more steam on social media, resulting in 61,000 bookings in just 48 hours last Tuesday and Wednesday, an Airbnb spokesperson said.
More than 34,000 of those nights were booked by U.S. users, while 3,000 bookings came from Canada and 8,000 from the United Kingdom.