Airbnb in numbers
irbnb has more than 1m accommodation listings across 34 000 cities and 190 countries.
Around 25m people make use of Airbnb’s services.
On New Year’s Eve more than 500 000 people stayed in an Airbnb-rented property.
Roughly 120 000 people stayed in Brazil in Airbnbrented rooms for the 2014 soccer World Cup from over 150 different countries.
Airbnb hosts in Brazil earned roughly $38m from reservations during the World Cup. The average host in Rio earned US$4 000 during the month-long tournament — about four times the average monthly salary in Rio.
Nearly 20 000 people per night are currently staying in an Airbnb-rented room in Paris compared with less than 4 000 in 2012.
Source: www.airbnb.com