In 2017, the number of adults using Airbnb in the United States amounted to 33.9 million, up from 29 million the previous year. This figure is forecast to reach 45.6 million by 2022.

Why do people use Airbnb?

The privately owned accommodation, rental and sharing website Airbnb has gained popularity all over the world. This is due to multiple factors including: cheaper lodging alternatives, a more authentic experience, uniqueness of accommodation and more. A survey found that 55 percent of U.S.-based & European Airbnb users were ‘very satisfied’ with their experience. On the other hand, two percent stated that they were ‘somewhat dissatisfied’ or ‘not at all satisfied’ with using the accommodation sharing platform.

Why don't people use Airbnb?

Despite the large amount of people that are satisfied with their Airbnb experience, there still remain those in Europe and the U.S. that do not want to use the company's services. The most common reason for people not to use Airbnb were privacy concerns, according to a 2017 survey – with 36 percent of respondents expressing this fear.

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

This statistic shows the number of Airbnb users in the United States and Europe from 2015 to 2016. It also includes a forecast of the number of Airbnb users from 2017 to 2020. In 2020, 40 million travelers in the United States and Europe are predicted to use Airbnb.

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

In 2017, the majority of Airbnb users in the United States and Europe were between the ages 25 to 34. People in older age groups generally made up a smaller share of Airbnb users. Only five percent of Airbnb users were aged 65 or older - indicating that Airbnb is more popular among younger users.

Airbnb popularity

The accommodation rental and sharing website Airbnb is gaining popularity all over the world. This can most likely be attributed to the company allowing for cheaper accommodation alternatives and a more personal experience of a location. In 2018, there were forecast be around 164.3 million Airbnb guest arrivals worldwide – and the average number of guests per listing was 31. A survey found that 55 percent of European and American Airbnb users were ‘very satisfied’ with their experience. On the other hand, two percent stated that they were ‘somewhat dissatisfied’ or ‘not at all satisfied’ with using the accommodation sharing platform.

Why not use Airbnb?

Despite the large amount of people being satisfied with their Airbnb experience, there still remain people in Europe and the U.S. that do not want to use their service. A survey found that the most common reason for people not to use Airbnb was privacy concerns – with 36 percent of the respondents expressing this concern.

Globally gross revenue from Airbnbs increased significantly from $27.69 billion in 2020 to $48.9 billion in 2021.

This statistic shows the average number of stays per year by Airbnb users in the United States and Europe from 2015 to 2016. It also shows the estimated number of stays from 2017 to 2018. In 2016, Airbnb was used an average of 3.3 times per year by its users.

As of December, 2024, there were over 95 thousand listings for room and apartment rentals in London on the Airbnb website, the highest of any other major European city. Airbnb listings were also high in Paris, Rome and Madrid. Paris accounted for around 91 thousand listings, while Rome and Madrid had over 35 and 26 thousand, respectively. Controversy of Airbnb in Europe Airbnb has become an increasingly popular option for tourists looking for local accommodation. Visitors are attracted to using Airbnb properties instead of hotels and other traditional travel accommodation mainly due to cheaper prices, but also for the location, and to gain an authentic experience. However, the site is facing ongoing legal problems, with some destinations moving to ban or restrict rentals from the site due to them worsening housing problems and undermining hotel regulations. Many European cities, including Amsterdam and Paris, have placed limits on the length of rentals, and others such as Barcelona have introduced strict regulations for hosts. The rise of Airbnb Airbnb is one of the most successful companies in the global sharing economy. The company was founded in San Francisco, California in 2008, after being conceived by two entrepreneurs looking for a way to offset their high rental costs. Airbnb was developed as an online platform for hosts to rent out their properties on a short-term basis. It now competes with other online travel booking websites including Booking.com and Expedia.

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.

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. The platform also allows consumers to book "experiences" in the regions they visit. In 2024, Airbnb reported over 492 million booked nights and experiences. How much revenue does Airbnb make? In 2024, the total revenue of Airbnb worldwide increased by nearly ten percent over the previous year. This continued the upward trend which the company has experienced since recovering from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. North America generated the highest share of Airbnb’s worldwide revenue in 2024, at five billion U.S. dollars. How many people visit the Airbnb website? Airbnb ranked third among the most popular travel and tourism websites worldwide based on average monthly visits, behind booking.com and tripadvisor.com. In 2024, airbnb.com saw its highest number of unique global visitors in March, at 101 million. Meanwhile, Airbnb ranked fourth among leading travel apps globally, with over 75 million downloads in 2024.

Inside Airbnb is an independent, non-commercial set of tools and data that allows you to explore how Airbnb is really being used in cities around the world.By analyzing publicly available information about a city's Airbnb's listings, Inside Airbnb provides filters and key metrics so you can see how Airbnb is being used to compete with the residential housing market.With Inside Airbnb, you can ask fundamental questions about Airbnb in any neighbourhood, or across the city as a whole. Questions such as: "How many listings are in my neighbourhood and where are they?""How many houses and apartments are being rented out frequently to tourists and not to long-term residents?""How much are hosts making from renting to tourists (compare that to long-term rentals)?""Which hosts are running a business with multiple listings and where they?"The tools are presented simply, and can also be used to answer more complicated questions, such as: "Show me all the highly available listings in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York City, which are for the 'entire home or apartment' that have a review in the last 6 months AND booked frequently AND where the host has other listings."These questions (and the answers) get to the core of the debate for many cities around the world, with Airbnb claiming that their hosts only occasionally rent the homes in which they live.In addition, many city or state legislation or ordinances that address residential housing, short term or vacation rentals, and zoning usually make reference to allowed use, including: how many nights a dwelling is rented per yearminimum nights staywhether the host is presenthow many rooms are being rented in a buildingthe number of occupants allowed in a rentalwhether the listing is licensedThe Inside Airbnb tool or data can be used to answer some of these questions.The data behind the Inside Airbnb site is sourced from publicly available information from the Airbnb site.The data has been analyzed, cleansed and aggregated where appropriate to faciliate public discussion. Read more disclaimers here.If you would like to do further analysis or produce alternate visualisations of the data, it is available below under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) "Public Domain Dedication" license.

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, Airbnb reported a net income of 2.64 billion U.S. dollars.

The number of users is forecast to experience significant growth in all segments in 2029. Especially notable is the remarkably robust growth observed in the Hotels segment as we approach the end of the forecast period. This value, reaching 384.4 thousand users, stands out significantly compared to the average changes, which are estimated at 176.56 thousand users. Find further statistics on other topics such as a comparison of the revenue in Spain and a comparison of the revenue in Germany. The Statista Market Insights cover a broad range of additional markets.

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.

Bengaluru, the southern Indian city of India had over 5.9 thousand active Airbnb listings in 2021. The south Asian country had an average occupancy rate of nine percent among Airbnb listings that year.

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 2023, Airbnb reported that 49 percent of their hosts identified as women.

In March 2024, over 101 million unique global visitors visited Airbnb.com, up from 86.7 million visitors in October 2023. Airbnb is an online marketplace for short-term holiday and travel rentals.

In the United Kingdom (UK) Airbnb had over 223 thousand active listings in 2018. From July 2017 to July 2018 such Airbnb hosts welcomed a total of 8.4 million guests into their accommodation. UK users of Airbnb outweighed the number of inbound guests, with 11.1 million guests from the UK renting Airbnb properties in the UK and elsewhere.

What is Airbnb?

Airbnb is an online accommodation portal that allows hosts to list their properties for short term rental. The company was founded in San Francisco in 2008 by two entrepreneurs who came up with the idea when looking for ways to meet their high rental costs. Travelers like using Airbnb as it offers a cheaper alternative to hotels and gives them a more authentic experience. The company was valued at 38 billion U.S dollars in 2018.

Airbnb in London

London is one the most popular cities in the world for Airbnb use: London had the highest number of Airbnb guest arrivals in Europe as of 2017, which is unsurprising considering it is one of the most visited tourist cities in the world. Compared to the rest of the UK, just over a third of active Airbnb listings were in London. The growth of Airbnb in London however was not without its problems. Like other cities, councils and communities raised concerns regarding the impact on the local housing supply and having control over who is living in the rentals. This led the Greater London Council to apply a 90-day limit on listings for entire homes in one year.

This dataset contains the data used in the study titled “Is hiding my first name enough? Using behavioural interventions to mitigate racial and gender discrimination in the rental housing market”. The data was collected from the London rental housing market between 2021 and 2022. Racial and gender biases are pervasive in housing markets. Males and ethnic minorities face discrimination in rental housing markets globally. The issue has been so pronounced that it regularly makes national and international headlines. In response to a racial discrimination lawsuit, Airbnb had to hide guests’ first names from rental hosts in Oregon, USA, starting in January 2022. Yet, there is little evidence that such measurement effectively counteracts racial and gender discrimination in housing markets.

Despite some well-established theoretical models developed more than half a century ago and a wealth of empirical evidence accumulated over the last two decades, studies examining effective solutions to combat discrimination remain sparse especially in housing markets. Given the complexity of the products and services involved and the relatively low frequency of transactions, nuanced studies are needed to understand how implicit racial and gender biases influence letting decisions.

This study investigates housing discrimination at the intersection where longstanding market behaviours meet the evolving insights of behavioural research. Although behavioural interventions have the potential to address both statistical and taste-based discrimination in the housing market, their successful implementation remains a challenge. Given the persistent biases and socio-economic dynamics in the housing market, interventions must be carefully tailored to the context.

By collecting evidence from field experiments, this research aims to gain insights into how real-world behavioural interventions can be effectively designed and implemented. Our focus remains twofold: to develop a robust theoretical framework and to translate its insights into tangible, impactful policy recommendations, with the ultimate goal of fostering a more inclusive housing market.

Although China has almost eliminated urban poverty, the total number of Chinese citizens in poverty remains at 82 million, most of which are rural residents. The development of rural finance is essential to preventing the country from undergoing further polarization because of the significant potential of such development to facilitate resource interflows between rural and urban markets and to support sustainable development in the agricultural sector. However, rural finance is the weakest point in China's financial systems. Rural households are more constrained than their urban counterparts in terms of financial product availability, consumer protection, and asset accumulation. The development of the rural financial system faces resistance from both the demand and the supply sides.

The proposed project addresses this challenge by investigating the applications of a proven behavioural approach, namely, Libertarian Paternalism, in the development of rural financial systems in China. This approach promotes choice architectures to nudge people into optimal decisions without interfering with the freedom of choice. It has been rigorously tested and warmly received in the UK public policy domain. This approach also fits the political and cultural background in China, in which the central government needs to maintain a firm control over financial systems as the general public increasingly demands more freedom.

Existing behavioural studies have been heavily reliant on laboratory experiments. Although the use of field studies has been increasing, empirical evidence from the developing world is limited. Meanwhile, the applications of behavioural insights in rural economic development in China remains an uncharted territory. Rural finance studies on the household level are limited; evidence on the role of psychological and social factors in rural households' financial decisions is scarce. The proposed project will bridge this gap in the literature.

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, Airbnb reported total assets worldwide amounting to 20.96 billion U.S. dollars.