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.
How Airbnb wants to unlock the next generation of Hosts
Airbnb needs to grow its supply. To do that, it needs to unlock the next generation of hosts, as per ...
How to get Airbnb host badges: Airbnb.org supporter, Host Advisory Board member, and Community Leader
Have you noticed that there are some new badges Airbnb hosts can include on their profiles? Airbnb has long positioned ...
How Airbnb Payments, Inc. became a money transfer platform to help Ukrainian hosts
In this article, we look at why companies like Airbnb, Booking, Expedia, and Hopper need to build robust and flexible ...
Airbnb Help Ukraine initiative: How to list your place and host a refugee
In the article, we show you how to list your place on Airbnb.org to welcome Ukrainian refugees. The military and ...
Airbnb Q4 2021 financial results: Great earnings, but question about supply growth linger
Here are our favorite data and quotes from Airbnb’s Q4 2021 financial results released this week. You can also check ...
2022 Airbnb strategy
Brian Chesky has shared Airbnb’s 2022 strategy. Here are three pillars on which Airbnb’s new product features, marketing initiatives, new ...
Is Live Anywhere the new normal for Airbnb?
Since 2007, Airbnb’s core mission has been to help anyone belong anywhere. For the hosts that make Airbnb, Airbnb, this ...
Airbnb’s Terms of Service Update Raises Security Deposit Questions
Airbnb has updated its Terms of Service. Everyone will have to accept them starting from April 22, 2022. We looked ...
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 ...
