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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 ...
Attract more guests and remote workers with the Airbnb wifi speed test
Airbnb hosts can now test their wifi speed, see the results, and get their listing updated accordingly, straight from the ...
What Airbnb’s 2021 mission statement says about the company’s ambitions
A company’s mission statement says a lot about how it sees itself, how it wants others to see it, where ...
FinTech by Booking, Revolut Stays, Dtravel: Payment solution hype vs real-world problems
The topic of payment is so important that Airbnb, and now Booking.com, have set up entire FinTech units. Things are ...
(Videos) Deep-dives into Airbnb’s stunning search options: Flexible Destinations, Flexible Matching, and Flexible Dates.
When, on May 24, Airbnb’s CEO Brian Chesky announced that his company was releasing 103 updates, a set of 3 ...
Airbnb vs. Vrbo 2021: 8 industry experts on which channel gets you the most bookings (and why)
2020 was undeniably significant for the vacation rental industry, and thus far, 2021 promises to outdo it. This year has ...
Airbnb firm cancellation policy: Differences with moderate and strict
In June 2021, after several months of testing, Airbnb introduced its new Firm cancellation policy. Firm fits between Moderate and ...
The ridiculous debate about Airbnb’s cleaning fees.
Twitterstorm erupted after “We gotta stop Airbnb” message shows screenshot of a $114 cleaning fee. Twitter users and the press ...
No, Airbnb’s Smart Pricing algorithm does not discriminate against black hosts. But …
On May 13, 2021, the Financial Times published an article titled “Airbnb pricing algorithm led to increased racial disparities, study ...
Airbnb and Booking targets of G7 push for higher taxes for multinationals and EU focus on restraining gatekeepers
Property managers and vacation rental owners operate businesses that are fundamentally local. As such, they pay taxes in the cities, ...
3 thought-provoking data points from Airbnb’s 2021 travel report
In our European travel report, we shared data about Airbnb’s bookings for summer 2021. One striking data point showed that ...
Summer 2021 Holiday rental market trends (Airbnb, Transparent)
In Europe, the surge in short-term rental bookings has arrived. Yet, data shows that the US started riding this wave ...
Watch Brian Chesky on Airbnb May 24 announcement (+ complete transcript)
On May 24, Airbnb announced more than one hundred upgrades across its service for guests, new hosts, and existing hosts. ...
