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The majority of guests on Airbnb are women. Most Airbnb guests are aged 25 to 34.

These are the Airbnb statistics on gross revenue by country.

Airbnb has a total of 6,132 employees that work for the company. 52.5% of Airbnb workers are male and 47.5% are female.

Listings per region on Airbnb declined from 2020 to 2021. Globally in 2021, there were a total of 12.7 million listings.

The current average price per night globally on Airbnb is $137 per night.

This is the complete breakdown of how much revenue Airbnb makes in commission from listings in each region.

As of May 2025, Airbnb led the hotel booking apps in China with almost *** million monthly active users. The second place was occupied by WeHotel, one of the largest tourism industry conglomerates in China, with around **** million monthly active users. Booking ranked forth with almost *** million users.

In February 2020, the global leading home-sharing platform Airbnb recorded ***** thousand monthly active app users in China, representing a year-on-year loss of more than ** percent compared to February 2019. Its local competitor Tujia.com also reported a user loss from *** thousand to ***** thousand in the same period. The outbreak of coronavirus at the beginning of 2020 led to a setback in China's hospitality industry.

Booking.com was the most-visited travel and tourism website worldwide in 2024, with an average of 562.6 million visits per month during the measured period. Tripadvisor.com ranked second, with 150.2 million visits, while Airbnb.com registered over 105.4 million average accesses.

The Chinese short-term rental market has shrunk during the COVID-19 pandemic and the total annual revenue dropped to **** billion yuan in 2022. 2023, however, saw a significant market recovery. The short-term rental market in China Until 2019, the home-sharing market has thrived in China as the number of domestic tourists continued to grow. In 2019, China had around *** million short-term rentals listed online and nearly ***** million monthly active users. Short-term rental accommodations were popular among younger travelers in particular. This picture changed fundamentally with the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, and the market switched back to growth in 2023 only. Leading market players Entering China in 2016, the global vacation rental leader Airbnb struggled to take more of the market share from local competitors. As of August 2023, Chinese short-term rental platform Mafengwo recorded around *** million active app users. Meituan B&B and Tujia were among other successful market players that year. Tujia.com, often named China's answer to Airbnb, was the leader in this competitive domestic market for several years. Its success was based on its entirely different model to Airbnb, which better caters to Chinese travelers' cultural and consumption behavior.