@Rebecca181 In this little beach town, which used to just be a tiny fishing village and has been transformed into a major crazy bustling tourist mecca, there have been quite a few new, big hotels built in the last couple of years. I don't know if they are all advertising on Airbnb, because I don't hardly ever bother doing searches. I have that Porter App that sends me my ranking "in your category", which I assume means one private room with private bath. I've seen the base number of those listings there go up from about 110-125 to 150-160. Last Easter break, there were suddenly over 500 overnight, but then it went back down to normal after the holiday. I assume that anyone who had a closet threw an air mattress or foamie in it to try to cash in. Or they thought that hosting was an easy, no-brainer way to make money, like the guy behind me, whose guests were at my gate 5 minutes after they arrived, asking if they could please borrow some toilet paper. I imagine a lot of those listings that were put up got 1* reviews and complaints and got delisted.
I'm sure the new hotels are taking business from Airbnb hosts, but I'd have to check to see if they are actually listing on Airbnb. I was getting worried, because I hadn't had one booking come in for the tourist season until about 3 weeks ago. That's when hosts were reporting here that their listings weren't showing up at all or that dates that were available were showing up on the guest end as blocked, so I figured that was happening to me. too. But then 2 one-week bookings came in for Dec, and now another for the 1st of January. So I guess that guests can see my listing if they search enough.
Also, both me and my neighbors have sort of different listings for this town, in that we are in the countryside, a 20 minute walk to town and beach, so we attract the quiet, earthy types who didn't come here to party hearty in town until 3 AM. That's both an advantage and a disadvantage as far as number of booking go.
And from talking around, yes, other hosts I've talked to here, even ones who are in town, or in the fancy hills with swimming pools and AC are saying their bookings are way down.