You've booked a room through Airbnb, but what do you do when you get there? The room sharing platform is testing a new feature called 'Local Companion', a concierge service that connects you to locals at your destination, who can tell you where's hot and what's pop.

Day rates were once only found at seedy motels, but Barcelona-based start-up ByHours is partnering with high-end hotels across Europe to offer short stays to the next generation of business travellers looking to freshen up, take a nap and reply to emails before an important meeting or afternoon flight.

Airbnb’s popular home rental model has spawned a wave of spin-off start-ups, from cleaning services to listings managers. Among them is Flatbook, which covers its users’ rent while they are away to make subletting easy. How’s its hotel-like service become a hit with students, families and landlords?

Airbnb has over 800,000 listings in 33,000 cities, with as many 425,000 people staying on a peak night. Hilton’s new brand Canopy wants to be the best ‘local’ hotel in the neighbourhood, but can it lure back the sharing economy generation?