Airbnb gained market share in France, the world's most visited tourist destination, despite a string of terrorist attacks that depressed bookings at traditional hotels.
The San Francisco-based company's apartment-sharing website drew 3.6 million travellers to France in June, July and August, 86 per cent more than in the same period a year ago, it said in a statement on Tuesday.
Travel across France fell this summer in the aftermath of deadly strikes that shook Paris and Nice, even as the European soccer championship drew hundreds of thousands of fans to games held throughout the country.
Budget travellers are flocking to digital platforms and bucking traditional travel patterns, which tend to dip following security threats. Terrorist attacks in Paris in November and the seaside resort of Nice in July claimed more than 200 lives.
Fears of renewed attacks have depressed hotel occupancy, which dropped to a summer low of 63.7 per cent in August, compared with 90 per cent a year earlier, according to data provider STR.
