access economy
TURO, a peer-to-peer car rental service. Sharing is more.
TURO is a peer-to-peer car rental service that connects car owners ready to share some their cars with users who would need a car for a couple of hours, a day, a weekend or more. It is US based and now started growing abroad, especially in Canada. It is a pure representative of what we call the “sharing economy” and it is aligned with nowadays trends of sharing, connecting and online services. After many luxury news announcements, this one is definitely one to highlight. The Sharing economy is a 16 years old model now The sharing economy concept is not new. It is a hybrid market model (in between owning and gift giving) which refers to peer-to-peer-based sharing of access to goods and services. This is coordinated through community-based online services. It can be a website, a mobile app or both. The term “sharing economy” began to appear in the early 2000s,…