@Yan3
Airbnb is both a business and community thriving on technically speaking, inexpensive communication. Hence, every guest CAN contact every host and ask/request whatever he wants to. I fully agree that this is a burden, too. Since hosts cannot stop unqualified guests from asking many, many questions, and since none of the hosts wishes to be sort of delisted by Airbnb, consider producing FAQ templates.
A guest is unverified but wants to book. Neither pre-approve nor decline. Send him (copy and paste) your pretty detailed explanation why you want him to be verified, etc. A guest who is genuinely interested in staying at your place will go through the verfication. The guys who wish to skip it will look elsewhere.
Have a template for "please, tell me MORE about what to do in your town" question. Simply copy and paste, and there you go.
I also have a template for the folks who are 'discount minded'.
Briefly, in just a few months, with a few hours of work, you'll have your own collection of well-written templates that will give guests all the information they need WITHOUT taxing your time at all.
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