Airbnb has boughta Barcelona-based travel startup it was advising and partnering with:Trip4realoffers a marketplace of experiences for tourists to browse and bookahead of timeto lend their trip a little local color/flavor (via tapastastings, paella cooking classes,barrio tours and so on). There are obvious synergies with the sharing economy giant which pitches its platform as a way to escape the usual tourist traps by staying in a realhome rather than a clinical hotel (albeit, its platform also plays host to plenty of professional landlords, so the reality is rather less clear-cut). Airbnb has also startedexpanding into travel services, outingan Airbnb Trips […]