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Whether official or unofficial, the recent studies of Airbnb activity are revealing more and more about the business happening on Airbnb.
If you're looking for the best hosts on Airbnb the most efficient way to find them is to count user reviews, according to a new study.
Everbooked and LearnAirbnb, two sites that provide hosting tips and pricing insights to Airbnb hosts, released a joint State of Airbnb Hosting study that looked at booking and listing activity in the top 200 markets in the United States. The study is in two parts, a data dive that looks at activity in these markets between October 2014 and 2015 and an attitudinal study taken in December of over 1,300 hosts in 82 countries.
This study did not look at all activity over the year-long period. Rather, it took a sample of 20% of U.S. activity — about 430,000 listings, 250,000 hosts, and nearly six million bookings — to
