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THE AIRBNB COMMUNITY contributed an estimated €74 million to regional and rural communities across Ireland in the last year.
That’s according to an Airbnb report entitled “Home-Sharing: Empowering Regional & Rural Ireland”.
This includes €47 million of estimated visitor spending by driving extra footfall to local businesses and €27 million earned by the hosts themselves.
Some highlights of the report include:
Global Head of Customer Experience at Airbnb, Aisling Hassell said,
This report shows the positive impact this new form of tourism is having on more remote parts of the country that haven’t traditionally benefited from tourism, enabling guests to experience some of the most beautiful parts of The Emerald Isle, away from the typical holiday destinations.
The report is an analysis of all travel to, and within, regional and rural Ireland outside of Dublin, from September 2015 through to August 2016.
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The headline makes no sense
It makes total sense to me, they must have changed it. There were 650,000 guests in the last year and Irish hosts made €27,000,000. Am I missing something?
@ jack… “€27 million income from 650,000 guests” is how it should read I think.
Well, when a couple stays in a room it’s counted at 2 guests but the host might just get money for one room.
“€27 income million” seeing the issue yet?
Oh yeah. I see it now. Weird! It’s like my brain swapped those words around. I read that like 5 times n didn’t see anything wrong.
Kill airbnb and you kill Irish tourism boom
I live in an apartment building in Dublin. About one half of the apartments are now AirBNB. It causes anti social problems, high wear and tear on common areas, anti-social problems, displacement of long term residents, disruption and upset. But there is big money to be made in the right areas.
The turnover of occupants makes it look like a hotel.
I arrived in late one night to encounter 2 guys urinating in the lift. The main doors of the apartment building are often left on the latch for those who don’t have keys. Damage has increased but the money is everything.
The Management company are strongly supportive of AirBNB use and have advised the minority of owner occupiers to move out and to use their apartments for AirBnB.
On,y a matter of time before there is a fire.
@Micheal OLainn: Sounds like a nightmare and a breach of planning besides. Document everything and withhold the management fee
@Micahel OLainn…..that’s some leap there : fire ??
Are you sure it’s not all the illegal economic migrant chancers you have provided a home for in you apartment causing the problems Michael? If it was me I would prefer tourists contributing to our economy by spending money and increasing out tax take.
Hi. Check this success story. “High court old presbytery apartments” the OMC obtained an injunction against owners renting out to tourists. It’s a breach of planning: no insurance: breach of the covenants in the lease; clearance with the revenue would have been jeopardised: check the planning and terms of the lease!! It’s that simple really!
@Micheal OLainn:
Interesting that the conditions you describe are exactly the same as a friend of mine who also lives in an apartment block, which has seen more and more non-Irish move in (you know mass-immmigration and all that) and has slowly but surely seen an ominous atmosphere of certain types congregating and the state and conditions of the property go to hell, urination in lifts, rubbish all over the place etc.
Air B&B have ruined the rental sector in most countries now, of course greedy landlords and agents are delighted, I have not forgotten that the pig Noonan did a lot of damage here too.
@Jho Harris: at least the landlord is guaranteed their rent …..
@Jho Harris:
Yeah, mass-immigration, hordes of “English students” from India and Brazil etc have nothing to do with it.
AirBnB Report compliments AirBnB.
Lot of landlords giving notice to tenants saying their selling then doing the airbnb,much more lucrative than renting long term if you have the time.
Do you work for Irish Hotels Federation ?
@Dave cullen: If a landlord is ditching long term tenants for an average income of €2,700 in rural Ireland from Air BNB. I would suggest that landlord is going nowhere very fast.
Lots of hotels getting in on the Airbnb action as well.
You’re right, it should read “27 Million reasons for Revenue to live AirBnB “
*love
Love it. Travelled around the world in affordable comfort thanks to air bnb
The government have not factored in air bnb. The future will see the rental sector collapse completely. disaster just around the corner. I’m a right cassandra aren’t I.
@Patrick Gough: Cassandra sometimes tells the truth but Cassandra is not listened to.
Great idea, great company. Pity RTE and ICTU are out to destroy the concept
An income of €2,700 from AirBnB before costs and expenditure for providing that service, nothing to write home about here. What surprised me is that the figure is so low.
Ireland must be a country of stable settled communities with long ancestral roots and heritage, not resemble something like an airport terminal.
What was the tax take I wonder
Upto,55% of the income nice for the state.
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