Hosting several properties with various room types

[Jonel0]

Good morning from a crips clear Winter's morning in Wilderness, Garden Route , South Africa -

I manage and market 5 properties in the area...one a Hotel with 160 rooms and 9 different room types, another Hotel with 42 rooms and 3 guest houses each with approx 5 rooms, but all different...some include Breakfast and some selfcatering....How can I manage all the listing on Airbnb from one account and one payment method. Do I literally have to load each different room that a guest can book seperately? I would so appreciate any input and a simple solution.....

Kind regards - Jonel Ackermann

[Michael300]

I'm having a similar issue just with one property. I have a place with 7 different rooms, in one house. I thought I set things up so that there will be one booking per room. Instead, it looks like people think they can book the entire house for the cost of one room. I just got an inquiry for 13 guests, 3 days, for what would be only about $250 USD. We charge much more than that as a hotel, of course.

[Jude7]

I'm curious as to how others will respond, @Jonel0, because my understanding is that the type of commercial venture is not the "experience" (in the words of Airbnb) that Airbnb is trying to provide.

From reading this forum,  it has become clear the Airbnb has involuntarily removed thriving listings from those hosts they felt were managing commercial ventures, with the explanation the these hosts were not providing the experience Airbnb desired to provide for guests - namely a more personal interaction between residents of a community and visitors.  These actions have been part of a larger, legal worldwide battle between the hotel industry and Airbnb - Airbnb claiming hosts are not hotels, hotels and municipalities claiming otherwise.

If you were going to proceed, I would think that each room would need to be its own listing, but I also think that one host listing over 200 options would wave a big red flag for the Airbnb management.  Also, I believe you would be personally identified as the host of these properties, not the hotel that you manage, because I also believe that hosts must be individuals (with personal information shared and verified) not business entities.

I am far from an expert, and I don't make any claims that what I just shared is correct - but I would be most interested in hearing the responses of others, especially from those that own multiple properties and listings.

Good luck!

Jude

[Jonel1]

Thank you for taking the time to respond Jude - really appreciate it....our village, Wilderness, is a small coastal town here in the Garden Route South Africa and somehow 100 years ago...this huge Hotel saw the light....I hear your heart with regards to personal service...but we have an amazing Hotel story here where a bunch of local bought the Hotel out of insolvency and we are really getting very, very well-know for authentic real service ( I had a flower farm up in the mountains for 20 years) and if you go through our reviews (nearly 400 in a year and a halve on Tripadvisor) and the few here on Airbnb somehow, even though we can host 450 guests a night, I have met with and hosted Airbnb guests personally and we are getting well known for treating guests more than small hosts around us as we are training staff and passionately focusing on service every minute of the day.....so I would suggest that each property is treated according to reviews...also...we invest in staff/facilities etc much more than smaller hosts, our taxes also much higher and we have to belong to gazillions of organisations at high cost, while small hosts get exempted...How has the most benefits currently in the Tourism Realm? Can be interesting conversation....back to question topic...I thought that would be the case...Hmmmm.....

[Victoria57]

@Jonel0, unfortunately there is no simple solution for this. You will need a separate listing for each room. For 160 rooms, or even 42 rooms, that will be very time-consuming to create. If you combine them then the first guest that books a room will block off all the other rooms. AirBnB was never intended as a platform for a commercial hotel with 160 rooms.