Why do I suddenly have no bookings?

[Marie70]

Hi! 

When we first put up our listing on Airbnb, there were a number of enquiries coming in everyday. But since the last 3-4 days, there's a sudden halt in enquiries.

I wonder if anyone encountered the same issue recently? Is it something wrong with my listing? 

Some enlightenment from other Hosts/Airbnb would be of great help!

Thank you  😊 

[Scott125]

I've been booked pretty much solid on both of my properties for the last year and booked 2-3 months in advance... it's been too good to be true. Then about a month ago everything went  COMPLETELY quiet and now I have just $400 in the pipeline, no requests, no idea what's going on. I'm a super host who's never had anything but 5-Stars up until a few weeks ago when a lunatic left day poor review. Could such a small percentage of my 30 5-STAR reviews be affecting me so greatly? 

** I did get into it with a Airbnb representative who was extremely unprofessional, rude, and threatened to pull my listing down. There are no supervisors to speak with so I'm wondering if it's possible she was able to reconfigure my availability or ranking in some way.

Sept 1

Concerned 

[Terry136]

I'm just a week with no bookings, I had no inquiries either I'm always full I lowered my price to 39.00 can you look at my bnb , I have added new things for the last nine months that I have been open for guest everyone is happy. Now  dead😒

[Olga201]

New host here with all the usual stupid question of no bookings. I have just listed mine - https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/20713574 - and immnediately after the listing I got 3 requests in following several hours. "Things are looking good" - I thought to myself. Not so fast, said the reality. There was (and still is) silence after this. No inquiries, no bookngs. I believe I am competetively priced (looking at other listings, even priced below AirBnB smart price suggestion), and I see on Stats page that I get the views - and I independently verified that my listing does appear in the search in a decent position when looking for my metro area. I have instant booking on. Is there a fundamental problem with my listing? I would greatly appreciate if someone can have a look and see if something just sticks out and serves as a guest repellent.

But still what puzzles me most is the dynamics. Why 3 in a first couple of hours and than nothing for days?

Thanks in advance!

[Risa5]

Same problem here.

The different with a lot of hosts here is that I have been running my listing for more than a year, but it was just recently that I rarely received any inquiry neither bookings.

Until recently, the occupation rate was pretty good and profit was generated each month.

Suddently ... since last month or so, everything has stopped ! I suffered some lost during October 2017, and in November is the same and December will be worse if I can't get this sorted out.

Any idea would be appreciated ....

My listing : https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/13384584

[Matthew285]

@Olga201, I am relatively new to AirBnB myself, so I also experienced the initial rush of requests immedately after first activating our listing.

My understanding (as explained by the more experienced hosts) is that brand new listings gets a lot of good promotion.

I myself noticed that we were highlighted in upper left in a "New Listing!" box for our city.

After your listing is no longer the new listing, things seem to settle back to normal... whatever that is for your city or listing.

Plus, as you book up, there are fewer hits by guests who might be searching for dates your listing is not available.

[Rachel395]

Hi All,

I've been having the same issues the past couple of days. I have bookings in October and for a bit in December. However, this past week, I haven't gotten any inquiries to my place. Can @Dede take a look for me please?

[Tammy24]

Your just fine, hang in there!

Bookings will come I had the same issue around this same time and it was very disconcerning.

It took about a couple of months but then I started getting bookings regularly.

Tammy

[Chiedozie0]

Hi,

I am a recent host who started a little less than a month ago. At first when I started, I was getting bookings. Then, all of a sudden, I see my listing views skyrocketing without any newer bookings in the last week. I have done very great things for guests in the past, but they have not reviewed me as this would have most likely left a positive review. However, the last 2 reviews about my listing (appear on top) were not the most favorable reviews and I suspect that these reviews severely hurt my chances of getting bookings. Can you look more into this for me? I sincerely appreciate it. Thank you for taking care to solve my problem with bookings.

Chie

[Assa0]

Nothing is wrong

Happened to me too and it came back by itself.

Dont do anything and you will see it will be booked again...

[Tammy24]

Had that same problem but eventually you will start getting bookings again. Hang in there!

Tammy

[Carren0]

I have had the same thing for weeks now I have had no new bookings! My last booking was from a repeat customer.  My place keeps getting nicer but am getting less bookings? I notice that Airbnb is pushing Tokeet, is it because I cannot afford to pay for this service as my hotel is small?

[Matthew285]

I just encountered this thread.

It seems like there would be a market for a column called

"Dear Dede"

[Eva332]

Same thing here! I'm a host with a loooot of reviews and 4 years hosting experience. I added new listings thinking to expand my business, but now all of my 6 listings are struggling to get bookings and it's a very high season in south Florida! It's getting frustrating:( any suggestions?

[Karen1027]

Hi Eva

Did you ever find out the reason for this? We have the same problem !

[Romano6]

We have the same problem. We listed 2 apartments in Florence with Air BnB at the end of May and were busy through October. In July we listed the same apts on Booking.com, were we had a few reservations for the fall and December/January.

Since January 1 we haven't had a single reservation come through Air BnB. ALL our reservations are coming through Booking.com. The guests are mostly from Asia, some from eastern and western Europe, and the balance from the Americas. They are booking much further in advance then the guests did during the summer.

Does anyone have any insight into this? Is the Booking.com guest a planner? Is the Air BnB guest a last minute type of person? Is Air BnB available to the asian guest? What is the personna of each type of guest? Could there be something wrong with our Air BnB listings?