Now that it is comparatively secure to journey once more, Airbnb is unveiling an overhauled expertise that features some much-needed options for frequent travellers. To begin, the reworked app now allows you to seek for classes tied to the house fashion, location or exercise. You can search for locations near nationwide parks, and even guide a treehouse. Airbnb is clearly hoping you will guide stays past the standard vacationer hotspots.

The largest addition, nevertheless, is perhaps Split Stays. As the identify implies, this allows you to cut up a visit between two properties with out having to individually guide every location. You can cut up between classes or locations, too. This guarantees to be useful for lengthy journeys, or any journey the place you will not keep in a single place.

And whereas Airbnb now not presents refunds in the event you get COVID-19, it’s offering some additional protections to encourage journey. A brand new AirCover program will both relocate you or present a refund if the host must cancel (inside 30 days), if you cannot examine in or if the house would not match the marketed claims. The 24-hour security cellphone line has additionally expanded help to 16 languages, and AirCover is constructed immediately into each the app and Airbnb’s web site.

The reworked expertise is obtainable within the US right now, and will unfold worldwide this week. Airbnb could also be stretching when it claims that is its largest change “in a decade,” but it surely is perhaps sufficient to immediate a trip after two years of huddling in place.