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Airbnb, one of the leading online platforms for tourist home rentals worldwide, has nearly *** active listings in about 100,000 cities around the world. Since its inception in 2007 as AirBed & Breakfast, the company founded in San Francisco by Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia has recorded billion arrivals at accommodations offered on its website. Thanks to this, Airbnb hosts have earned more than ** billion U.S. dollars, that is, an average of * U.S. dollars per person per year. 

Impact of COVID-19

Between January and September 2020, Airbnb bookings worldwide decreased by ** percent compared to the same period in 2019. However, between April and June the drop was even more pronounced. With ** percent fewer bookings, Airbnb's revenues fell by nearly *** million U.S. dollars. Despite this, the rebound in domestic tourism between July and September helped surpass the figures of the same quarter in 2018, thus allowing some hope for recovery. With the gradual return to normality thanks to vaccination, Airbnb began its recovery, reaching revenues of more than million U.S. dollars between July and September 2023, reaching a new all-time high. 

Airbnb in Spain

According to a 2024 survey, Airbnb is the second most used online platform by Spaniards to book hotels or tourist homes. Additionally, the latest estimates from the U.S. company place the economic impact of its activity in Spain at billion euros annually. In 2022, its subsidiary *** reported revenues of million euros.