Post by High Priestess on Jun 9, 2017 1:22:56 GMT
The mega hosts are listing and listing and listing on Airbnb...
www.buzzfeed.com/venessawong/airbnb-mega-hosts?utm_term=.kcP7aR62KK#.jbMm9MWPBB
Take Kara, who has 854 listings, or Mike who has 339. Inside Airbnb, an activist-run analytics tool, identified more than 100 hosts on the site who each have more than 100 listings. Among them were 39 hosts with more than 200 each.
It does raise a question for Airbnb as a brand," Quinby told BuzzFeed News. "There’s a message they’re trying to convey — home sharing, traveling like a local, experience local culture, stay in a private home — but actually a growing segment of their listings are not really someone’s home. It’s a condo that is one of 1,000 others that look the same and are run by a hotel-like property management company with a front desk check-in."
Many of Jan's properties fit that description. Clues lie in the reviews, where some of Jan's guests identify the places they stayed at as being run by Wyndham, a publicly traded operator of resorts, timeshares, and hotel brands like Howard Johnson, Super 8 and Ramada. Reverse searches of the images used in many of Jan's listings found the photos being used on the websites of Wyndham hotels and resorts.
www.buzzfeed.com/venessawong/airbnb-mega-hosts?utm_term=.kcP7aR62KK#.jbMm9MWPBB
Take Kara, who has 854 listings, or Mike who has 339. Inside Airbnb, an activist-run analytics tool, identified more than 100 hosts on the site who each have more than 100 listings. Among them were 39 hosts with more than 200 each.
It does raise a question for Airbnb as a brand," Quinby told BuzzFeed News. "There’s a message they’re trying to convey — home sharing, traveling like a local, experience local culture, stay in a private home — but actually a growing segment of their listings are not really someone’s home. It’s a condo that is one of 1,000 others that look the same and are run by a hotel-like property management company with a front desk check-in."
Many of Jan's properties fit that description. Clues lie in the reviews, where some of Jan's guests identify the places they stayed at as being run by Wyndham, a publicly traded operator of resorts, timeshares, and hotel brands like Howard Johnson, Super 8 and Ramada. Reverse searches of the images used in many of Jan's listings found the photos being used on the websites of Wyndham hotels and resorts.
