Airbnb, Inc.

Pauline Nguyen

Sebastien Pierre Romain Dubois

Mojtaba Mehrara

Karen Ouyang

James Ostrowski

Yunshan Weng

Benjamin Chute

Andrew Hunt

Eric Ertmann

Dillon Davis

Kristen Jaber

Gabriel Radovsky

The present disclosure relates to the implementation of a pricing structure for the private booking of travel experiences. An experience is offered publicly, so as to be bookable by a plurality of customers, each customer booking a subset of a number of available slots for attendees. A customer may convert the experience from a public experience to a private experience by paying at least a minimum price for the private booking. Where the per person cost would exceed the minimum price, the customer pays an additional per guest value. A plurality of differing pricing rules may be applied in correspondence based on the respective numbers of different types of guests attending the event, or differing date/time instances of the experience.

Integrating private reservations with publicly-offered ticketed reservations

A flexible listings search system can receive and return results for flexible listing searches. For example, the system can perform micro-flexible searches (e.g., plus or minus a few days) or super flexible searches (e.g., a time span in one or more months), using listing arrays that can be rapidly accessed to efficiently identify and return results. The search system can perform flexible destination searches for different categories of accommodations for display in a viewport.

Flexible destination search

A flexible feature and location-based listings system can provide accommodation listings using different feature categories and a location of the searching user. The returned listings can be modified upon providing the listings to a searching user. The returned listings can be modified in response to selection of a first feature category and re-modified in response to a second feature category in an expanded geographic search area.

Expandable feature and location-based listings searches

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Columbia Falls, MT, United States of America

Pauline Nguyen