San Francisco (TAN): A staggering 4 million people spent the night at an Airbnb listing on August 10, the home-sharing platform has claimed.
“It was the biggest night in Airbnb history and set a new bar for belonging on Airbnb,” said the company, which has listings in nearly every country of the world.
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The firm has created the Airbnb Connection Index, which reflects the pairings of countries and regions between hosts and guests. For example, when a guest from Argentina became the first to stay with a host in Canada, a new connection was made between Argentina and Canada. And in turn, when a Canadian guest became the first to stay with a host in Argentina, another new connection was made, from Canada to Argentina.
In 245 countries and regions around the world, it is mathematically possible for there to be 60,025 place-to-place connections. This abstract mathematical possibility is coming closer to reality every day. In 2010, Airbnb had facilitated more than 1,300 connections. By 2015, that number had increased to more than 16,500.
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Today, approximately 26,000 connections have been made via the Airbnb platform… By the end of this year, we expect we will cross the halfway mark with more than 30,013 connections, and we will continue to grow. We predict that we will exceed 50,000 connections by the year 2027, the company added.
