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Airbnb lets guests find and book hosts’ accommodation through its website and app. Guests pay through the platform; Airbnb holds the payment until check-in, then retains its service fee and starts paying the host. Accommodation fees vary with the booking value and other booking details, and stays generate nearly all revenue. Guests can also book experiences and services, for which Airbnb charges fees only to hosts.
The business depends on hosts supplying appealing listings and guests choosing to book them. Hosts largely control pricing and the quality of a stay, and travel demand is seasonal. Local rental rules also determine what hosts can offer: registration requirements, limits on rental nights and host-presence rules can restrict listings and bookings. New York City has effectively banned short-term rentals.
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Expedia Group’s Vrbo competes directly with Airbnb for vacation-rental hosts and travelers, putting both its supply of homes and booking demand in contention. Expedia collects traveler payments or reservation commissions, while Airbnb charges booking service fees; watch Vrbo’s online-bookable alternative accommodations for the breadth of this rivalry.
Booking Holdings’ Booking.com competes worldwide with Airbnb for travelers booking accommodation online, earning revenue by arranging travelers’ purchases from travel providers while Airbnb charges booking service fees. Watch Booking.com accommodation reservations: they generate most of Booking Holdings’ revenue from bookings it handles as the seller and almost all its reservation-commission revenue.
Trip.com Group competes with Airbnb for leisure and business travelers booking accommodation online, offering lodging reservations alongside transport tickets, packaged tours and corporate travel services. Its global accommodation listings show the range of lodging choices competing with Airbnb’s fee-earning stays.
Marriott International’s global hotel network competes with Airbnb-listed homes for travelers’ short-term lodging spending. Airbnb earns fees on stay bookings, while Marriott charges hotel owners for using its brands and systems, making room-revenue-based royalties a line to watch for the hotel side of this competition.
Hyatt Hotels competes with Airbnb through hotels and resorts, but also directly through Homes & Hideaways, which lets travelers book private homes in the United States. Hyatt earns revenue from hotel operations and fees for management, services and brand use; Homes & Hideaways is the offering to watch for its closest overlap with Airbnb’s stay-booking business.
Tripadvisor’s Viator competes with Airbnb for travelers booking destination activities, rather than the stays that generate nearly all Airbnb revenue. Tripadvisor earns mainly commissions on completed experience bookings, while Airbnb charges experience hosts a fee; watch Tripadvisor’s Experiences revenue for this narrower rivalry.
trivago N.V. competes with Airbnb for travelers comparing and choosing stays, but mainly sends them to advertisers’ websites to book rather than collecting Airbnb-style booking fees. Online travel agencies provide most of its referral revenue, so watch traveler traffic and accommodation-advertiser spending for its position in the fight for lodging customers.
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts’ franchised hotel network competes with Airbnb-listed stays for lodging guests, especially at economy and midscale prices. Wyndham earns royalties from hotel franchisees rather than Airbnb’s booking service fees; its U.S. royalty contribution is worth watching, since the United States accounted for 77% of its royalties in 2025.
Hyatt Hotels Corporation earningsH
Hyatt’s Homes & Hideaways lets travelers book US private homes, and its report can show how much traction this direct overlap with Airbnb’s stay business is gaining.
Look for Hyatt’s disclosures on Homes & Hideaways to gauge whether travelers and homes are joining this US private-home booking offer. More use would show Hyatt building a channel that competes directly with Airbnb for stays; limited progress would mean less pressure from this route.
Booking Holdings Inc. earningsBKNG
Booking Holdings’ Booking.com competes with Airbnb worldwide for stay bookings, and its report shows how much accommodation demand is flowing through that rival platform.
Focus on Booking.com accommodation reservations, not Booking Holdings’ overall results; these reservations are a key source of its booking revenue. More reservations mean more travelers arranging stays through this competing platform and tougher competition for Airbnb’s bookings; fewer mean less pressure from this channel.
Expedia Group, Inc. earningsEXPE
Expedia’s Vrbo competes with Airbnb for vacation-rental hosts and travelers, and its report shows whether Vrbo’s bookable homes and booking demand are strengthening.
Watch Vrbo’s online-bookable alternative accommodations alongside booking demand. Growth in both would show stronger competition for hosts and travelers and more direct pressure on Airbnb; weakness on either side would mean less pressure to win listings or bookings.
Airbnb, Inc. earningsThis company
Airbnb earns most of its revenue from stay-booking fees, and this report shows how much booking growth turns into check-ins and recognized revenue.
Read Gross Booking Value (the full value of bookings, including host earnings, fees and taxes) alongside revenue, which Airbnb recognizes when guests check in. If booking value growth is followed by more check-ins and revenue, demand is converting into platform fees; if bookings rise but revenue lags, check-in timing, cancellations, refunds or incentives may be weakening that conversion.
