Current state and development of Airbnb accommodation offer in 167 countries

Abstract

The paper examines the size, structure, distribution, dynamics, and use of Airbnb accommodation offer in 167 countries. Web-scrapping Airbnb website in fall 2018 and 2019 resulted in a datasets on 5.7 million listings, including 3.6 million active listings which have been rented out (reviewed) during the last year. Listings are divided into four groups based on types of properties and numbers of offers hosted by one platform user. The results show that the platform is most commonly used to rent out entire apartments by multi-hosts. The numbers of Airbnb listings in countries depend on the level of economic development and size of inbound tourism. One third of Airbnb supply is located in big cities, another one third near seacoasts. Airbnb offer grows most quickly in its relatively new markets, while in primary urban destinations of some European countries it is stable or decreases. The offer of professional hosts is growing more quickly than of peer-to-peer hosts. Differences in the frequency of use and prices of listings exaggerate the geographical unevenness in benefits and impacts of Airbnb activity. Airbnb supply is not a uniform segment of tourist accommodation and its effects on destinations should be considered in relation to territorial context.

Interactive value formation: drivers and outcomes from Airbnb guests’ perspectives

“…In Nordic countries, individually owned Airbnb rental properties are growing significantly (Adamiak, 2018). Single homes (single-hosted entire homes/apartments) form the majority that Airbnb offers in these countries, such as Denmark (mainly), followed by Sweden, Norway and Finland, except Iceland (mixed, a high balance of single rooms, single homes, multi-rooms and multi-homes) (Adamiak, 2019). Some recent studies indicated that, contrary to single-unit hosts, multi-unit hosts devoted more time and attention into the operations of their room-sharing business and thus were more proficient in serving guests (Kwok & Xie, 2019).…”

“…Furthermore, the active listings in Denmark and Iceland surpassed in recent years (Adamiak, 2019). In the same vein, in 2017, Visit Sweden, Sweden's official tourism board, collaborated with Airbnb to turn the entire country into an Airbnb listing (Airbnb, 2017), while Airbnb represented 90% of the dwellings in Stockholm (Einefors, 2018).…”

Peer-to-peer accommodation in destination life cycle: the case of Nordic countries

“…Private and shared rooms are slightly more common in Denmark than in other countries. Multi-hosted properties account for one-fourth of the total supply, much less than in other parts of the world (Adamiak, 2019).…”

“…At the beginning, Airbnb was designed to enable renting out spare room in one's home (Gallagher, 2017). Later, the offer of professionally hosted rental homes and apartments, as well as hotel rooms, dominated the platform (Adamiak, 2019;Dolnicar, 2019).…”

A proposal to regulate the peer‐to‐peer market for tourist accommodation

“…More generally, with more recent data (fall 2018 and 2019) of 5.7 million listings in 167 countries, it was noted that the platform is most commonly used to rent entire apartments by multihosts, and supply of professional hosts was growing more rapidly than that of p2p hosts (Adamiak, 2019). Concretely, the percent of entire homes exceeded 70%, whereas professional hosts owned more than 60% of listings.…”