Airbnb Host Experience: What Happens When Work Enters Your Home
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Airbnb Host Experience: What Happens When Work Enters Your Home

What happens when your home becomes your workplace? This question often arises when analyzing how accommodation-sharing platforms like Airbnb continue to blur the lines between personal space and professional service. In the hospitality-driven gig e...

Dr. Sowon Kim
Dr. Sowon Kim
Associate Professor at EHL Hospitality Business School
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by Dr. Sowon Kim
18 July 2025EHLShort Term Rental (STR)
Airbnb Host Experience: What Happens When Work Enters Your Home
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Competing with Short-Term Rentals via Community Building

Over the past decade, the hospitality landscape has undergone a profound transformation. At the center of this shift is the meteoric rise of short-term rental platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo, which have redefined what it means to “travel like a local...

Jungho Suh
Jungho Suh
Assistant professor of management and project director at the Korean Management Institute at The George Washington University School of Business
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by Jungho Suh
23 June 2025GWUShort Term Rental (STR)
George Washington University (GWU)
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Why is Airbnb losing the war of STR dominance to Booking.com?

Last year, Booking.com delivered 400.4 million nights booked at short-term rentals (STRs), which was 80% of Airbnb’s total nights. At the same time, Booking.com generates almost twice as many nights per listing on its platform as Airbnb. Growth rate...

Max Starkov
Max Starkov
Hospitality & travel technologist and digital strategist
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by Max Starkov
29 May 2025Hospitality NetShort Term Rental (STR)
Hospitality Net
Airbnb’s Summer 2025 launch the Two things that stood out
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Airbnb’s Summer 2025 launch the Two things that stood out

Everyone has opinions on Airbnb’s summer release. And I have been asked for mine a few times. So here’s my take, and I’ll stick to the two things that stood out to me. They’re not what you think.

Martin Soler
Martin Soler
Partner at Soler & Associates
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by Martin Soler
15 May 2025Soler & AssociatesShort Term Rental (STR)
Airbnb’s Summer 2025 launch the Two things that stood out
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2024 India Accommodation Barometer: Key Trends and Insights

2024 has been a standout year for Indian hoteliers, with positive sentiments expressed by survey respondents across all major economic metrics. Twothirds of Indian accommodations reported good or very good business performance over the past six mont...

Yang Li
Yang Li
Head of Public Affairs, Asia Pacific at booking.com
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by Yang Li
6 December 2024Booking.comShort Term Rental (STR)
Booking.com
The Airbnb Dilemma: Privacy, Pricing, and the Shift Back to Hotels
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The Airbnb Dilemma: Privacy, Pricing, and the Shift Back to Hotels

In a world where your weekend getaway could come with hidden cameras, choosing between Airbnb and traditional hotels is an important decision. In recent months, there have been news reports about Airbnb guests secretly recorded by the hosts of the p...

André Baljeu
André Baljeu
Founder & Managing Director at techtalk.travel
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by André Baljeu
9 August 2024techtalk.travelShort Term Rental (STR)
The Airbnb Dilemma: Privacy, Pricing, and the Shift Back to Hotels
The Endangered Species of Hospitality: Bed and Breakfast Properties
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The Endangered Species of Hospitality: Bed and Breakfast Properties

In Lansing, MI, the city council and planning board are revisiting ordinances for short-term rentals. This work often runs into questions about bed and breakfast accommodations and what defines a bed and breakfast. In small communities, ordinances a...

Mandy Murry
Mandy Murry
Chief Experience Officer
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by Mandy Murry
29 July 2024Hospitality ConciergeShort Term Rental (STR)
The Endangered Species of Hospitality: Bed and Breakfast Properties
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How Airbnb and short-term rentals reshape rural and urban communities

In less than two decades, short-term rentals have thoroughly transformed the hospitality industry, wresting 15% market share from hotels. From a feel-good pioneer of the sharing economy to a $100bn behemoth, Airbed and Breakfast, better known as Air...

Cindy Heo
Cindy Heo
Associate Professor of revenue management at EHL Hospitality Business School
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by Cindy Heo
3 May 2024EHLShort Term Rental (STR)
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Shaping Hospitality’s Future with Niko Karstikko, CEO and Co-Founder of Bob W.
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Shaping Hospitality’s Future with Niko Karstikko, CEO and Co-Founder of Bob W.

Niko Karstikko is the CEO and Co-Founder of Bob W., an innovative affordable luxury hospitality brand. They combine the best of the hotel experience – the guarantee of high standards and professionalism – with the best of short stays, providing auth...

Tom Brown
Tom Brown
Senior Copywriter at Mews
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Tom Brown
by Tom Brown
22 April 2024MewsShort Term Rental (STR)
Shaping Hospitality’s Future with Niko Karstikko, CEO and Co-Founder of Bob W.
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Maximizing revenue in serviced apartments: key trends and tips for success

Serviced apartments are at the forefront of hospitality’s evolution. The traditional boundaries between short and long stays are blurring, fueled by changing guest preferences and advancements in technology. In this article, we’ll delve into key tre...

Tom Brown
Tom Brown
Senior Copywriter at Mews
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by Tom Brown
5 December 2023MewsShort Term Rental (STR)
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