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  • Airbnb appeals to Glaswegians to host COP26 attendees

    September 29, 2021

    Glaswegians have been offered a £100 incentive by Airbnb to open up their homes for the COP26. The climate change event will draw in 30,000 attendees from all over the world – but rental platform Airbnb says the city’s hotels only cater for half those people. It cited the Glasgow Convention Bureau as saying hotel [...]

  • Airbnb publishes record results with revenue up 300 per cent year on year

    August 13, 2021

    Airbnb has reported record intake for Q2 of 2021 with revenue beating pre-pandemic levels as vaccination programmes boost travel. The company achieved $13.4bn in gross booking value – up 320 per cent compared to the same period a year ago and up 37 per cent compared to 2019.  Revenue for Q2 hit $1.3bn a rise [...]

  • Airbnb inks deal with location tech firm what3words amid staycation boom

    July 8, 2021

    Airbnb has launched a partnership with what3words to bring the startup’s location mapping technology to its platform ahead of an expected boom in staycations. What3words has divided the world into three-metre squares each with a unique three-word name to help pinpoint specific addresses. The London-based company said its technology helps to tackle the inaccuracy of [...]

  • Airbnb paid tourist $7m after rape at New York rental

    June 16, 2021

    Airbnb paid an Australian tourist $7m (£5m) after she was allegedly raped at knifepoint at a rental in central New York, according to media reports. The woman received the payout after the attack took place during a visit with friends to celebrate New Year’s Eve in 2015, Bloomberg reports. The suspect had reportedly made a [...]

  • Airbnb boss banks on long-term shift to remote working

    May 26, 2021

    Airbnb is “not just a travel company anymore”, boss Brian Chesky has said, as he threw his weight behind a long-term shift to home working. The rental booking chief has unveiled a string of changes to the platform aimed at capitalising on new travel habits in the post-pandemic age. Chesky said Covid-19 had sparked the [...]

  • Checking out: Airbnb shares dive as insiders are allowed to sell following last year’s IPO

    May 17, 2021

    Airbnb shares dropped by almost 6 per cent after insiders became free to sell their shares for the first time since the home rental firm’s IPO in December 2020.  Today’s drop comes only days after Airbnb beat Wall Street expectations for first-quarter gross bookings and revenue on May 13, as speedy Covid-19 vaccinations and easing [...]

  • Vaccinations drive Airbnb bookings up 52 per cent

    May 13, 2021

    Airbnb beat Wall Street’s expectations for first-quarter gross bookings and revenue on Thursday, as speedy Covid-19 vaccinations and easing restrictions encouraged more people to check into its vacation rentals. Gross bookings jumped 52 per cent to $10.29bn in the quarter, easily beating analysts’ estimates of $6.93bn. “For guests aged 60 and above in the U.S., who [...]

  • Airbnb blocks 80,000 UK bookings in party crackdown ahead of lockdown easing

    April 15, 2021

    Airbnb has rejected almost 80,000 bookings in the UK as the home-sharing firm attempts to clamp down on end-of-lockdown parties. The company has made use of a feature first introduced in August last year which automatically prevents customers under the age of 25 reserving entire homes if they have fewer than three positive reviews. Use [...]

  • Airbnb blocks 200 UK listings in crackdown on party houses

    April 1, 2021

    Airbnb has blocked a further 200 listings in the UK during a crackdown on “party houses”, bringing the total number of properties removed or suspended to 1,000 over the past six months. The holiday letting platform said the suspensions are focused on listings with descriptions that appear to allow parties, which is against Airbnb’s policy. [...]

  • Airbnb reports better than expected revenue drop amid biting pandemic restrictions

    February 25, 2021

    Airbnb suffered a better than expected 22 per cent revenue drop in Q4 2020, having at one stage predicted 2020 revenue could be less than half of what it was in 2019. Airbnb’s total revenue of $3.4bn for 2020 decreased by only 30 per cent compared with $4.8bn in 2019. In Q4 2020, revenue of [...]

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