The genesis of the modern-day share economy is best traced to San Francisco in 2008, where Chesky and Joe Gebbia, recent Rhode Island School of Design graduates who had fled west, thought they could make some pocket cash by housing attendees at an industrial design conference on air beds in their apartment.

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It was one big gloomy locked room, with maybe a hundred beds and extremely stale air.

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Napcabs are German-engineered, 4sqm self-service units, equipped with amenities such as double beds, worktables and air conditioning units.

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Plastic mattress covers help keep dander out of beds, and room air cleaners equipped with high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters can remove dander from the air.

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And these tents have stone bath tubs, open-air showers, terraces, designer furnishings, heavenly beds and views overlooking a little-visited corner of the northern savannah lands that are quite simply out of this world.

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The 11 rooms in the original buildings have a history-steeped charm, but I was more taken with the four Maya cottages, which have mosquito-netted swinging beds under palapa roofs, open-air bathrooms, and gracefully simple decor.

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Air New Zealand studied household furniture and, in its warehouse lab, experimented with bunk beds, staggered coach seating in kind of a tic-tac-toe pattern that would allow passengers to stretch out more with legs protruding between seats, or even stacking seats atop each other in the coach cabin.

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