10/25/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/25/2024 04:09
Ahead of the Halloween weekend, Airbnb is deploying heightened anti-party defenses across the US and Canada to help reduce the risk of disruptive parties and promote positive stays over the holiday.
The proprietary system that will be in effect works by leveraging machine learning technology to try to identify one-night and two-night booking attempts of entire home listings that could be potentially higher risk for a party, and stop those bookings from being made. This technology looks at hundreds of signals that can suggest a booking is potentially higher risk for a disruptive party, including whether the stay is being booked at the last minute, the length of the trip and the distance to the listing.
These defenses were in effect in the lead up to and over Halloween last year, and deterred approximately 37,000 people in the US and Canada from booking on Airbnb, as well as saw a decrease in reports of disruptive parties to us over that holiday weekend.
"The overwhelming majority of Airbnb guests are responsible travelers, and issues are rare. We want to support our hosts and local communities by trying to reduce the risk of disruptive parties even more, and we believe these measures will help us to do just that."
Tara Bunch, Global Head of Operations at Airbnb
For guests seeking to book an entire home listing for Halloween anywhere in the US (including Puerto Rico) and Canada, the following measures are in effect:
The foundation of our ongoing efforts to deter parties is our global party ban. Since implementing this policy in 2020, and introducing measures like this Halloween anti-party system to help enforce it, we've seen an over 50 percent decrease in the rate of party reports to us, while last year just 0.035% of reservations globally resulted in a report of a party.
Our aim is to keep building on this success by continuing to promote responsible travel in our hosts' homes and local neighborhoods. To that end, other measures we have in place to support the communities we serve this Halloween-and year round-include: