Airbnb has seen some controversy in Los Angeles due to complaints that the influx of short-term rentals was turning apartment buildings into hotels and was using up the city’s limited housing. This caused new restrictions to be put in place on Airbnb and similar services in summer 2019. As a result, short-term rentals can only come from someone's primary residence. In LA, a primary residence is a place someone lives in at least six months out of the year. Additionally, bookings for visitors are limited to 120 days a year, however there are exceptions to this. As of the third quarter of 2019, there were 24,914 active Airbnb rentals in LA. Whether this number will reduce after the restrictions are enforced remains to be seen.

In 2007, a cash-strapped Brian Chesky came up with a shrewd way to pay his $1,200 San Francisco apartment rent. He would offer “Air bed and breakfast”, which consisted of three airbeds,...

Airbnb, a home sharing economy platform, gives users an alternative to traditional hotel accommodation by allowing them to rent accommodation from people who are willing to share their homes. In 2024, North America had the largest regional share of gross booking value at 46 percent.

North America was the region that brought in the highest amount of Airbnb’s worldwide revenue in 2024, at five billion U.S. dollars. As the company is based in the United States, this is not surprising. However, the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region was not too far behind with 4.1 billion U.S. dollars in revenue. North America also reported the highest average number of nights booked by region with Airbnb in 2024. Airbnb hosts and bookings The Airbnb platform users consist of both travelers needing a place to stay and hosts offering their property for short term rent. In 2023, a gender distribution of Airbnb hosts worldwide reported that slightly fewer than half identified as women. The number of nights and experiences booked with Airbnb hosts worldwide showed growth over the last few years but dropped to a low of under 200 million bookings in 2020 due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic when global travel was severely disrupted. In 2024, Airbnb reported nearly 492 million booked nights and experiences, a significant increase over the previous year. How did COVID-19 affect Airbnb’s revenue? In addition to a reduction in the number of bookings, Airbnb also experienced a loss in revenue due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, as many countries implemented travel bans and restrictions to slow the spread of the virus across international borders. This reduced the total number of travelers worldwide In 2020, the revenue of Airbnb fell to 3.38 billion U.S. dollars. Airbnb’s revenue in 2021, however, rebounded and amounted to 5.99 billion U.S. dollars. By 2024, that figure reached 11.1 billion.

These Airbnb statistics detail how fast Airbnb is currently growing and where it’s going in the future.

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

The average host on Airbnb earns $13,800 annually. The fastest-growing host demographic is seniors.

According to data from Airbtics.com, the share of international Airbnb guests in Mexico slightly surpassed domestic travelers in May 2020. In April, local tourists accounted for over half of the guests that used the popular online lodging platform, overturning the trend registered in previous months. From November 2019 to March 2020, the country registered the highest shares of domestic Airbnb guests, with figures above 63 to nearly 70 percent. In 2019, domestic spending accounted for 85 percent of total spending on travel and tourism in Mexico.

London is the city with the most Airbnbs listings in the world at 156,511.

Airbnb, a home sharing economy platform, gives users an alternative to traditional hotel accommodation by allowing them to rent accommodation from people who are willing to share their homes. In 2024, North America earned the largest regional share of Airbnb's revenue at 45 percent. Meanwhile, the Europe and the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region ranked second at 37 percent.

These are the top 10 cities in terms of gross revenue on Airbnb:

Data was downloaded from: http://insideairbnb.com/get-the-data.html Data was compiled on 31 August, 2019

Files description: - listings_detailed.csv - Detailed Listings data for Stockholm - reviews_detailed.csv - Detailed Review Data for listings in Stockholm - listings.csv - Summary information and metrics for listings in Stockholm (good for visualisations). - reviews.csv - Summary Review data and Listing ID (to facilitate time based analytics and visualisations linked to a listing).

Airbnb, a home sharing economy platform, gives users an alternative to traditional hotel accommodation by allowing them to rent accommodation from people who are willing to share their homes. In addition, it allows consumers to book "experiences" in the regions they visit. In 2024, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) had the largest share of number of nights and experiences booked on the Airbnb platform at 41 percent.

Here are the numbers on the countries with the most nights booked on Airbnb in 2020 and 2021.

According to data from Airbtics.com, international guests staying at Airbnb's in Ireland reached a 13-month low of 35.7 percent of total guests in May 2020, compared to 83.7 percent in May 2019. The ratio of international guests started to decrease in April 2020, as the COVID-19 outbreak restricted travel.

These are the Airbnb statistics on gross revenue by country.

The region with the most nights and experiences booked with Airbnb worldwide in 2024 was Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (or EMEA). That year, the EMEA region reported 201 million bookings. Asia Pacific had the lowest number of bookings at 61 million. The Asia Pacific region also had the lowest average number of nights per Airbnb booking in 2024.

This dataset shows main information about rooms available on AirBnB. Information come from the open data website of Air Bnb wich covered major cities worldwide.For anonymizing data, precision of geo-coordinates point is 300m.

The most Airbnb listings are in the US, with an average of 2.25 million active listings throughout 2021.

gradio/NYC-Airbnb-Open-Data dataset hosted on Hugging Face and contributed by the HF Datasets community