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I just stumbled across that site while I was looking for something else and there was a lot of Airbnb statistics on it so I thought I would save it to go back to at times.
@ Paul's comment here is the best....Lies, damned lies, and statistics!....hey, how come that got through the sanitizer!!!
We can mount a statistical argument that black is actually white. But I didn't just look at that 11% figure in isolation!
1/.....If you take note of the volume or traffic here, customer host support does appear to be on the decline!
2/....Authorities around the world are putting more and more restrictions on short term rentals.
3/....Airbnb are spending exponentially more on advertising and guest promotion.
It is probably right that more than 70% of Airbnb listings are, Snoozed, seasonally unavailable or simply not active on any given night, but that is not the way the rest of the world sees it. They just see that there are 660,000 Airbnb listings alone in the US....more than 1 million between the United States and France.
Obviously there are always going to be turkeys who will say...'You can never have too much of a good thing' and yeah, as soon as you complete a review, that page comes up telling you to earn extra money by getting more hosts to climb on the Airbnb bandwagon.
In 2014 Airbnb was seen as a major tourist aid, a funky but respectable hospitality adjuct.
Now its just seen as a massive corporate steam roller destroying the balance of affordable housing!
A crunch will come, Airbnb cannot keep going the way it is....if it does it will be regulated into extinction!
What all of you say is absolutely correct, but look at the bigger picture, look what is happening!
Cheers......Rob