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I’ve had similar issues. I suspect a lower resolution photo would fare better, though I have not experimented. Also Airbnb seems to prefer photos with landscape aspect vs portrait aspect.
The following might be considered a workaround, but I’ve had good results adding a black border to the left and right of my picture. How thick of a border is to some extent a matter of taste. I suggest experimentation.
This is easy enough to do using the Gimp. If you don’t want to use the Gimp, and have a similar tool like Photoshop available, I expect it’s similarly easy with that.
Based on preliminary tests, much more of the image survives, though at the cost of adding black to the left and right. But if one wants something more like a portrait view in a layout that expect something more like a landscape view, some compromises have to be made.