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Airbnb's struggles go beyond people spending less. It's losing some travelers to hotels.
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2024
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That's odd. Do people not want to pay hotel prices and a "cleaning fee" and also clean up the place before they leave? Or is it like they want to show up and the room they booked actually exists?
Yes exactly. Hosts got greedy, Airbnb let them, and this is the result.
They could fix it pretty easily but the host would hate it.
-Make the listing page clearly indicate whether or not the guest is required to perform chores. Make the filter aware of certain chores and allow a guest to screen out listings that require those. IE, 'strip bed', 'do laundry', 'take out garbage', 'cleaning tasks', 'other', etc. and have a really easy button at the top 'filter out listings with chores'.
If I'm paying half the price of a hotel then I don't mind having to throw the sheets in the laundry. If I'm paying more than a hotel plus a cleaning fee, I want to be on vacation and act like it.
Why shouldn't taxes be displayed?
Taxes are not displayed anywhere else, so if Airbnb starts including taxes in their listing they will be at a competitive disadvantage as their pricing would become apples to oranges versus hotels in the wrong direction.
Almost nowhere in the US includes taxes in the advertised price.
Americans are used to mentally adding taxes to the price
They should be displayed.
To add to this, in the U.S. the price on the shelf should be the actual price after tax. It's so weird seeing the price and knowing it's not actually the price.