Super Host & not one inquiry or reservation in 2025!?

What is happening? I have over 100 - 5 star reviews. 2025 hit and not one inquiry much less a reservation. I’m shocked. Is anyone else experiencing this? I only use Airbnb but I guess I need to look into other web services.

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A lack of bookings can be due to many different reasons.
Increased competition, competition lowering their prices, people being cautious about discretionary spending due to economic climate, and if you are located in the US and get international guests, the tourism numbers have plummeted due to the present administration’s policies.

Superhost has little to do with bookings. Hosts who have had it, lost it, and regained it, etc., as I have, have found it made no difference to their booking rates. And Airbnb eliminated the Superhost filter about a year or more ago.

My listing is a homeshare in Mexico and 2025 has been my best booked year so far, since I started hosting in 2016, so lack of bookings is not universal.

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Are you located in the USA? If so, tourists are not really coming to the USA. There’s many travel advisories suggesting not to travel to the USA. Also many folks are getting laid off because of so many cutbacks, not just government employees but also in the private sector. Google just laid off thousands of employees. Microsoft is also laying off employees.

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Elections have consequences.

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I’m not sure about their algorithm now but it used to be that you needed to stay active on the site to boost your listing in search. Change your rates, of pictures or something. You can’t just set and forget, Airbnb wants active hosts.

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And I think you (@KKC ) say it well - the more you get booked, the more you get booked. AirBnB (and Vrbo) probably have how much money you make for them as a major factor in where you rank.

We lost SuperHost in january but are a Guest Favorite. We have a very busy year this year and the AirBnB bookings are a significantly higher percent of total booking than ever before.

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Vicious circle isn’t it? If you don’t get booked your ranking goes down, so no one sees your listing, so you don’t get booked.

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Are you getting views… on the insights tab…or has your listing been suspended?

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Where are you located?

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Hey Erin,

A lot of hosts across the US are seeing slower bookings in 2025. According to AirDNA’s latest report (June 2025), nationwide short-term rental demand is down about 4% year-over-year while total listings keep climbing so more hosts are chasing fewer guests.

Many travelers are also booking last minute and leaning on bigger platforms like VRBO, Booking, or direct booking sites instead of only Airbnb. Some hosts have added mid-term stays (30+ days) to keep income stable that market is up nearly 24% since 2023 (Source: AirDNA).

Might be a good time to list on a couple other sites, update your SEO, and push your listing on social too. The market is shifting, but your strong reviews will still help you stand out.

Regards

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Airbnb fell off a cliff - again - this year. BDC is coming to the rescue and picking up the pieces. Not complaining, Airbnb is doing this all to themselves.

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Every time someone posts about their lack of bookings I always ask 'what are you doing to increase bookings"

No-one ever replies.

Simply listing with an OTA (Airbnb, VRBO, whoever) doesn’t guarantee bookings - the host also has to work to create a business. Sitting back and expecting bookings isn’t how it works.

Promote, work at it, use social media, network … then you’ll get bookings.

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I’m sorry to hear that! Where are you located? Like @muddy said, depends on a lot of factors but I have been busier this year than in the past 3 years that I’ve been a host. Especially this summer, I’m in Phoenix so my goal is to make enough during peak season to get me through the super slow summer months (this is also the time i usually stay there myself for a month or 2) but this summer I have been booked. Even my peak season was busier than previous years. I have to say, I’ve also had more foreign guests this year also so to those saying tourism is dead and no one wants to visit the USA, my experience has been the complete opposite.

True, not everyone has the same experience, but there are actual facts, not just “those saying”, regarding the drop in tourism. The tourism and hotel industries have hard data, not opinions or anecdotal evidence.

" In May, Canadian visitation dropped 38% by car and 24% by air compared to the same month in 2024. It was the fifth consecutive month of steepening year-over-year declines, following double-digit drops in April and March. On first-quarter earnings calls in early May, executives from major hotel and travel companies noted that Canadians were still traveling as much as ever—just not to the United States. Hyatt chief executive officer Mark Hoplamazian called the phenomenon “a flyover.”

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What are your minimum days. I say 3 minimum. Perhaps lower your price. Check there is not an error with minimum days on your calendar. We live in UK and have said we dont want yo go to the USA until Trump is out. Do you have strict cancellation policy. What has the weather been like where you are. I find once weather improves suddenly we get more bookings. Good luck

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In the past 3 months (my slowest time of the season) I’ve had 2 Canadian bookings and 3 bookings from Japan, Taiwan and Poland. I have 3 more coming up in August. I have more foreign visitors this year than the past 3 years combined. The title of the article you quoted the hard data from is, “Trump Policies Will Cost The U.S. Up To $29 Billion In Tourism.” The ‘hard data’ came from a Canadian Statistics organization. I’m sure neither have any leftwing progressive biases at all /s.

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They know how many border crossing there are, @denisenicholson92. That’s a matter of record, not “bias”. The CEO of Hyatt surely knows the stats on whether the numbers of international guests at his US locations is down.

Try to separate facts from your own bias.

And the headline was from the article in Forbes, not any Canadian entity. Forbes could hardly be called a “left wing progressive” publication.

Like I said, not every host has found their international bookings to be down. It can depend a lot on your location, the nature of your listing, what market you tend to attract, etc. Hosts’ individual booking rates are anecdotal, not aggregated data. I.e. just because some hosts’ bookings are down or up, that may be not be representative of an overall situation.

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There can be many reasons for it. Your next step should be to figure out what they are. These are the steps I would take:

  1. Do a search in your market/area - where do you come in that list (are you in the list)?
  2. If you aren’t, then you have a problem with your listing - is the location correct, or is the listing inactive?
  3. If you are in the list, the next step would be good basic market research - how do you compare with the other listings? Things to consider are descriptions, photos, amenities, price, minimum stay etc. Also, are the other listings getting bookings?
  4. Then start making improvements to your listing to try and get further up the list.

FWIW, 2025 has been an excellent year so far for us in New Zealand. And I do list on other platforms, using a PMS (Hospitable) to keep everything in sync. We get at least half our bookings from AirBnB, with VRBO second.

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You’re suggesting (with sarcasm) that Forbes Magazine and the CEO have left wing bias. Forbes – with its a consistently pro-business editorial voice and the CEO of a company owned by one of America’s 10 wealthiest families – have left wing progressive biases? You didn’t even stop to check the sources before being dismissive

The reflex to dismiss facts that make Trump look bad as not-to-be-trusted, biased, progressive fake news is quite widespread in American culture – and is one of the features of today’s America that makes the United States less attractive to international tourists.

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