No, not a home-away-from-home for your pets, but a chance to interact with animals during your travels, with an eye on understanding animals in their habitats.
Among the first set of experiences offered are paddle-boarding with corgis, kayaking with conservationists, buzzing about with urban beekeepers, watching arctic foxes and rescuing puppies lost in the 30-kilometer (19-mile) Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Airbnb has worked with animal-centric NGOs to create an animal welfare policy and to create some of the experiences. The company compares its effort at ethical animal interaction with “typical tourist attractions that are notorious for ethical concerns,” such as Sea World, which has been under heavy criticism for its treatment of marine mammals.
Photo: “Tea with Naughty Sheep,” one of the Airbnb experiences.
