Airbnb
The latest insights and updates for Airbnb hosts, from in-depth looks at seasonal releases and new features to practical checklists and management tips. This category covers essential topics for vacation rental managers and short-term rental managers, including Airbnb experiences, hosting dashboard features, cleaning guidelines, cancellation policy updates, and brand strategy analysis. Stay informed on Airbnb’s fiscal growth, industry news, and the tools that can help you enhance your hosting and management approach.
Brian Chesky is asking you: If Airbnb could launch anything in 2022, what would it be?
This is now a yearly tradition: In the early days of January, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky turned to Twitter and ...
Most popular 2021 articles: Airbnb commercials, upgrades, and cancellation policies + Vacasa + Sonder
What was popular in 2021 on Rental Scale-Up? Airbnb commercials, investor decks by hospitality businesses raising money (Sonder and Vacasa) ...
TikTok videos reveal quirky Airbnb listings and 2022 décor trends
If you are an Airbnb host, you need to know how influential TikTok has become: Some guests use it to ...
Airbnb AirCover: Discover the new Host protections and why the Host Guarantee got killed
To attract new hosts and keep current hosts happy, Airbnb innovated 10 years ago with the launch of its $1,000,000 ...
Airbnb’s response to the EU Short-Term Rental Initiative
With its “Short-Term Rental Initiative”, the European Union wants to simplify short-term rental regulations across Europe. The text, to be ...
Ask a Superhost and Superhost Ambassadors – Airbnb Insider
The Ask a Superhost program is central to Airbnb’s plan to get more supply, and in a cost-effective way. We ...
Airbnb vs Vrbo vs Booking vs Hopper & Co
How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the OTA (Online Travel Agency) landscape? Rental Scale-Up’s Thibault Masson was recently invited by ...
Airbnb: Best financial results ever. But why are long stays plateauing? How are listing numbers doing?
We'll see whether Airbnb has won its bets, looking at the company's data and statements with a grain of salt. For instance, if long stays have progressed as a share of booked nights, they actually seem to be plateauing to 2020 levels in absolute room night number, according to our calculations).
Airbnb 2021 Winter Release
On Tuesday, November 9, Brian Chesky revealed the Airbnb 2021 Winter Release. It includes 53 upgrades and innovations that make it easier to host and support the changing needs of guests.
Why you need to test your wifi using your Airbnb app before November 4
If you are an Airbnb host, you need to act fast to update the wifi speed displayed in your listing. ...
Short-term rental supply drops by 75% in key cities. Are black sheep gone? Airbnb reacting by working with cities and pushing its non-urban “unique stays“ narrative, despite the meager listing numbers.
COVID-19 run ruined into international and domestic demand, but new regulations have kicked in. For instance, on October 1, 2021, the number of listings in Amsterdam dropped by 78%, after platforms started enforcing mandatory registrations. It was a 13,000 drop in listings for just Airbnb. The story is the same from Prague to Vienna, Barcelona to Budapest.
Study of 127,183 Airbnb guest complaints: What we learned and what we didn’t.
A recent study of 127,183 Airbnb complaints on Twitter has caught the attention of many Airbnb hosts and property managers. While our Rental ...
Airbnb vs Vrbo vs Booking: Stealing the best from one another (supply, positioning, pricing)
Airbnb, Booking, and Vrbo are busy finding ways to take the thunder away from each other. Vrbo wants Airbnb’s supply. ...
What Airbnb’s new Today host tab and price comparison tool with Booking.com say about the company’s priorities
Airbnb hosts will have noticed that Airbnb was busy rolling out a new design for its hosting tools, across their ...
Airbnb, Sonder, and HomeAway’s CEOs on 2021 – 2022 vacation rental trends
Skift’s Global Forum is one of the most respected travel conferences in the world. It is a great place to ...
Why cleaning fees have increased by more than 33% during the pandemic
In May 2021, Airbnb rushed to promise to give full transparency on its cleaning fee, after Twitter and the media ...
Airbnb Safety updates: New measures around Guest Safety and Party Prevention
In recent weeks, Airbnb has released new data and features to increase trust and safety on its platform. First, Airbnb ...
Airbnb MultiFamily Home Sharing Redux: Will the RealPage Migo partnership fare better than Niido and Pillow in the quest to create Airbnb-friendly buildings?
As we mentioned in our article about long stays, Airbnb is renewing its efforts to capture a slice of the ...
Long stays: Airbnb renews efforts to capture slices of housing, real estate rental, and corporate stay markets. But why are room nights flat?
Since the onset of the pandemic, Airbnb had claimed that people were not just traveling, but also living and working ...
Q2 2021 Airbnb earnings: A unique moment in time when it closed in on giant OTAs like Booking?
Last week, Airbnb released its commercial and financial results for the second quarter (Q2) of 2021. We’ll look at the ...
