Airbnb in Venice

Venice Bulletin: Monthly updates on Airbnb in Venice, Italy

May, 2019

This monthly report, portrays the latest numbers on Airbnb listings in Venice (Italy), in terms of absolute amounts, comparison to population and housing stock, neighbourhood distribution and revenue shares among hosts.

Airbnb data for Venice

Inside Airbnb

A conservative occupancy model has been built in order to estimate Occupancy Rates, Income per Month and Nights per Year. More information on the methodolgy of the occupancy model can be found in the disclaimers.

Inside Airbnb: Venice uses the following parameters:

A high availability metric and filter of 90 days per year
A frequently rented filter of 90 days per year
A review rate of 50% for the number of guests making a booking who leave a review
An average booking of 3 nights unless a higher minimum nights is configured for a listing.
A maximum occupancy rate of 70% to ensure the occupancy model does not produce artifically high results based on the available data

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Airbnb

Airbnb provides NO PUBLIC DATA to help understand the use of their platform and the impact on cities around the world.

Airbnb also provide NO DATA to cities or states to assist them in ensuring that Airbnb hosts and Airbnb are following the local laws.

Other data

The Venice Project Center, part of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, reports on the Impacts of Tourism on the City of Venice, and provides other research and critical data on Venice.

Acknowledgements

RESET VENEZIA

RESET VENEZIE logo Inside Airbnb: Venice was released in partnership with RESET VENEZIA, a group of local activists whose goal is to infect the local political and cultural system with the virus of innovation and accountability.

RESET VENEZIA wants to link Venice with all those places in the world where there are talented individuals, groups, movements and laboratories where people are shaping a more sustainable future, and in the process try to find answers to the gangrenous problems that afflict their own town.

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shared rooms

Airbnb hosts can list entire homes/apartments, private or shared rooms.

Depending on the room type, availability, and activity, an airbnb listing could be more like a hotel, disruptive for neighbours, taking away housing, and illegal.

Only recent and frequently booked

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reviews/listing/month

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reviews

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estimated occupancy

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estimated income/month

Airbnb guests may leave a review after their stay, and these can be used as an indicator of airbnb activity.

The minimum stay, price and number of reviews have been used to estimate the occupancy rate, the number of nights per year and the income per month for each listing.

How does the income from Airbnb compare to a long-term lease?

Do the number of nights booked per year make it impossible for a listing to be used for residential housing?

And what is renting to a tourist full-time rather than a resident doing to our neighbourhoods and cities?

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Only highly available

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high availability

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listings w high availability

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listings w low availability

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days/year

An Airbnb host can setup a calendar for their listing so that it is only available for a few days or weeks a year.

Other listings are available all year round (except for when it is already booked).

Entire homes or apartments highly available year-round for tourists, probably don't have the owner present, could be illegal, and more importantly, are displacing residents.

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single listings

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multi-listings

Some Airbnb hosts have multiple listings.

A host may list separate rooms in the same apartment, or multiple apartments or homes available in their entirity.

Hosts with multiple listings are more likely to be running a business, are unlikely to be living in the property, and in violation of most short term rental laws designed to protect residential housing.

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