5 Airbnb Cuba Hosts Manage Half of the Island’s Inventory
Photo Credit: A listing for a colonial rental house in Cuba. Airbnb
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Unlike Airbnb's other markets, there are several reasons for a single person to manage dozens of listings in Cuba. Setting up this model could lead to its replication in other, hard to manage areas.
Traveling from the U.S. to Cuba became slightly easier last week with Airbnb’s announcement that it would now list more than 1,000 accommodations options on the island.
Many of the listings are best described as casas particulares, which are traditional private home-stays and the primary kind of lodging available in the country outside of the big-box, faceless resort hotels. Airbnb has described the owners of these homes as “local micro-entrepreneurs.”
But many of the hosts in Cuba end up using middle men who s
