Also, side comment - Mr. Chesky needs to find better writers. His ‘humor’ about setting up his family home was embarassing.
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I’m watching the video. There’s an emphasis on long term bookings, one of 3 major trends in travel identified. I’m not on board for that unless and until Airbnb provides workable options for: the host requiring a legal rental contract, tenant background checks (there can be charge for it, consistent with industry practice), and real security deposits.
In the jurisdictions where my Airbnb is and where my second home is, licenses and regulations applicable to short term and long term (generally 30 days or more) rentals are completely different.
I assume the new 10-step host sign up defaults to instant book and flexible cancellation. And, I noticed – no house rules!! I bet we’ll be hearing from a few of those new hosts on this forum.
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Concur. It was weird how it joked about how unattractive a place to stay it would be. Considering how widely distributed the video is, why didn’t they have a real new host setting up their site? Millennial irony may not be suitable for all occasions.
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How did you see the announcement? I never get notified about them and only find out one has been made when I hear about it on here or in the news!
By the way, I have EVERY possible AirBnB notification turned on.
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This came as an email. Check your settings and your junk mail filter.
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Shame their ‘policy’ is so lacking - and biassed in favour of the guest.
Meanwhile, my municipality, Chicago, is adding further restrictions on hosting. They’ve enacted a $125 annual registration fee for every listing. The most alarming new restriction however, is a that new listing will not post while a registration is “Pending”. In pre Covid days, a registration could remain ‘pending’ for 6 - 9 months.
hahaha
amazing announcements 
And I am so SO grateful for that
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“Online classes led by Superhosts help new Hosts get up and running as quickly as possible.”
Any Superhosts on here been approached by Airbnb?
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Wonder what the hourly rate is that they are willing to pay…
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Same here…I am just hearing about these updates here. I will just Google it for a detailed information.
I didn’t hear about these updates either. Airbnb can email me, text me and notify me through the app. All my notification options are turned on. Is this another glitch in their system?
I think the number one Airbnb needs to focus on right now is just basic customer service with actual follow up.
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Airbnb considers the guest the “customer” and the host the “product supplier.” Given that reality, be careful what you wish for.
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That is absolutely “dead on.” Hosts are the product, the guests provide the income and are therefore placed higher on the food chain. Of course, without a product…or a high quality product…everyone eventually loses.
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Best I can tell there’s a good supply of product…quality I don’t know. What I do know is that people have been making the same complaint for years and predicting doom for Airbnb. Maybe eventually they will be right.
Where are the details?
I don’t see a range in my calendar.
I don’t see suggestions on listing editor price settings.
I can’t find any help file on suggested price range.
not that I’m expecting much useful information. Because I doubt it will work well with extra guest fees. Algo would have to be pretty smart.
maybe I have to use Smart Pricing. But then what is new here?
Until there is a viable alternative to Airbnb, hosts have little choice but to deal with Airbnb the best we can. I am confident that at some point this home-sharing model will be picked up by other entrepreneurs with an appropriate priority on hosts. I wasn’t around in Airbnb’s early days, but I wonder what the priority on hosts was in its inception.
Do you have a reason to think this? Of course it could happen. I’d love to see a return to the model of “one host, one home” and true property sharing. Let the corporate rentals, multi unit owners/managers and hotels be on their own platform. But I doubt that happens. It’s just as likely that Airbnb becomes the Amazon of travel or gets bought by Amazon as anything else.