Airbnb sees promise in rural Canada as company slowly rebuilds from pandemic lull
by Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press
Posted Apr 29, 2021 12:35 pm EDT
Last Updated Apr 29, 2021 at 12:44 pm EDT
Canadians headed into a long weekend with COVID-19 infections surging to new highs across the country, spreading to regions outside well-established hotspots and pushing weekly deaths to highs unseen since mid-June. Muskoka chairs sit on a dock looking over Boshkung Lake, in Algonquin Highlands, Ont., Monday, Oct. 5, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Giordano Ciampn
When the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world last year, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky watched business shrivel up at record speed and his company’s phonelines flood with cancellations, eventually leading him to lay off 1,900 workers.