Business Travel ready

[Serge12]

Very very confusing ! I've been superhost for 2 years and have had many business people staying in the double bedroom of my flat.

Yet I do not qualify because it is a flat (or apartment).And this contradict what Airbnb says, if you click on the question mark of : Eligible Property types, it says Flat....The mind boggles ! And what does A room type of entire home/apt mean ????

An apartment IS a flat ! ( Apartment is American English and Flat is British English ) 

Please enlighten me ! 

[Dave-and-Deb0]

Hi @Serge12,

Yes, for business hosting, you need to have an entire home/apartment which it seems you do.  I believe you have your listing listed wrong as it shows as a private room.  If I rent your place, do I get your whole flat (apartment) or am I sharing it with someone.  If I am sharing with someone, you have a private room and you have it listed properly BUT if I get the entire apartment, you need to change it to entire home/apartment.

Here are the distinctions of listing types:

I hope this helps.

[Dede0]

Quoting from the listing's description: "The flat has a small bathroom/toilet ( which we share)". So the listing is *not* for an entire home, etc. It's a single room *in* a flat. Which, for their own reasons, whether we agree or not (I don't, actually), AirBnB rules out for their business traveler program. And that's their call to make.

Or own listing doesn't qualify (in spite of being a full private apartment with private outside entrance, own bath, own full kitchen, own upstairs porch/deck, etc) because we have a tiny dog in the main house on the same lot. I suppose we could *lie* about that, but we don't and won't. In the meantime, because we're located in our state capital, a major tech center, and a university town, we get a lot of business travelers. None of whom seem to care about their fleeting glimpses of the tiny dog. Woof!

[Dave-and-Deb0]

Hi @Dede0,

We are business ready and have two black labs.  Our situation is much like yours.  We live in the upstairs and the people in the suite have their seperate entrance.  I called Airbnb and spoke to the rep and they said as long as the guest will not have interaction with the dogs and the dogs do not have access to the listing, we do not have to check the pets live on-site.  I still do mention them in our listing though.

It does make sense though.  Our dogs have zero access to the guest and the suite so why not allow business travellers?

I should also mention @Dede0 that I have been a business listing for a couple months now and I have not had one booking which was through their business program but I do get lots of repeat guests who are business people.