Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday, June 8th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough today. Might we see a V-shaped recovery after all?

AirB&B says there is a lot of pen-up demand for travel out there.

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Well, this is certainly a hopeful sign, or at least a sign that people are willing to travel

again. AirB&B is reporting that in the last few weeks, roughly May 17th through June 3rd, it has seen

more U.S. bookings than it did in the same period last year. So maybe a V-shaped recovery for some areas

of the economy at least. Quote, people after having been stuck in their homes for a few months do want to get out of their

houses. It's really, really clear, Airbnb Chief Executive Officer Brian Chesky said in an interview, but they don't necessarily want to get on an airplane and are not yet comfortable leaving their countries."

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Yes, the sudden interest in travel does seem to be localized or at least people want to travel

within easy reach of their homes maybe within a day or so in terms of car travel. And Airbnb is not alone in seeing this, quoting again from

Bloomberg. U.S. searches for VRBO are now up compared to this time last year, according

to a note by Cohen and

company analyst Kevin Cobbleman on Monday and Airbnb queries are down only around

10 percent however hotels on the wider Expedia brand have yet to get any summer relief with searches

still down more than 60%. International sojournes, usually planned months in advance,

are being replaced with impulsive road trips booked a day before

and weekend getaways are turning into weeks long respites, Chesky said.

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