Airbnb Hosts Will Be Able to Pay to Fast-Track Verification of Their Listings
Photo Credit: An Airbnb Luxe listing in Jamaica. Airbnb vows to verify all of its homes and listings. Airbnb
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Airbnb — and other players in the short-term rental space — have a daunting task in trying to verify millions of home listings, along with an expanded array of tours and activities. With this push, it might just open up more players to liability from content offered on their platforms.
Airbnb is moving ahead with plans to verify all of its home listings, adding its experiences offering to that pledge, the company said Friday. Still, it is grappling with how to carry this out on such a massive scale.
What's more, in a recent Recode Decode podcast, CEO Brian Chesky said Airbnb plans to let Airbnb hosts pay to fast-track physical inspections and verifications of their listings, certified with a badge. The homesharing site also plans to revamp its review system in an unspecified way where guests would be able to verify specific elements of their stays.
"The challenge is you can't physically inspect seven, eight, nine million properties," Chesky said about a week ago on the podcast.
He noted that the c
