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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The concept was mainly for music festivals and events – places where lots of younger, open-minded people are traveling on the same dates. They can indicate which people they would want to stay with by tagging profiles, similar to a dating website. When a mutual match is made, 50 percent of the traveler’s payment is refunded to them.

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APRIL 17, 2018

music festival season with a $704 million bang. Times , that’s how much is spent by consumers and businesses over the course of the two-weekend Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival as well as its sister event, country music festival Stagecoach, which takes place the following weekend in the same location.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

This year, however, since both Tencent and Alibaba are looking to get more in-store (as opposed to online) use — they are trying to push Chinese consumers to use the spring festival as a reason to buy physical objects through their apps, hoping that the habit will stick. And there are more gamified features on offer.

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AUGUST 25, 2018

This weekend, the hippest, coolest, most connected and most creative will converge on Nevada’s Black Rock desert and set up camp on “the playa” for the annual Burning Man festival. The average base price of a ticket is around $425, though there is some tiered pricing (with the top tier having a $1,200 price tag). The Burn is upon us.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2016

It’s estimated that nearly 9,000 travelers used Chicago Airbnb rentals during that time, a spike that is usually only experienced during Lollapalooza, the city’s annual music festival, the Chicago Tribune reported. “As As with the entire Chicago hospitality industry, summer is booming.

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DECEMBER 9, 2017

In fact, this is the problem with buying most higher price tag Star Wars items: at some point, the purchaser will have to explain why, exactly, he or she felt building the Death Star out of Legos was an experience worth paying $500 to enjoy. While that is an undoubtedly awesome expenditure of money, it probably lacks some practicality.

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