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Airbnb Supply in Western Australia

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Existing research on Airbnb supply and Airbnb hosts can be arranged into three main areas: host segmentation, hosts’ platform choice as well as hosting quality and quantity

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Fig. 4.1

Note Only available listings are considered. Unavailability may refer to occupation by a guest (booking), availability not provided by the host (“blacked out” listing) or cessation of activity (deleted listing).

Fig. 4.2

Note Only hosts from available listings are considered. Unavailability may refer to occupation by a guest (booking), availability not provided by the host (“blacked out” listing) or cessation of activity (deleted listing).

Fig. 4.3

Note Only available listings are considered. Unavailability may refer to occupation by a guest (booking), availability not provided by the host (“blacked out” listing) or cessation of activity (deleted listing).

Fig. 4.4

Note Only available listings are considered. Unavailability may refer to occupation by a guest (booking), availability not provided by the host (“blacked out” listing) or cessation of activity (deleted listing).

Fig. 4.5

Note Only available listings are considered. Unavailability may refer to occupation by a guest (booking), availability not provided by the host (“blacked out” listing) or cessation of activity (deleted listing).

Fig. 4.6

Note Only available listings are considered. Unavailability may refer to occupation by a guest (booking), availability not provided by the host (“blacked out” listing) or cessation of activity (deleted listing). SA2 level boundaries are used.

Fig. 4.7

Note Only available listings are considered. Unavailability may refer to occupation by a guest (booking), availability not provided by the host (“blacked out” listing) or cessation of activity (deleted listing). SA2 level boundaries are used.

Fig. 4.8

Note Only available listings are considered. Unavailability may refer to occupation by a guest (booking), availability not provided by the host (“blacked out” listing) or cessation of activity (deleted listing). SA2 level boundaries are used.

Fig. 4.9

Note Only available listings are considered. Unavailability may refer to occupation by a guest (booking), availability not provided by the host (“blacked out” listing) or cessation of activity (deleted listing). SA2 level boundaries are used.

Fig. 4.10

Note Only available listings are considered. Unavailability may refer to occupation by a guest (booking), availability not provided by the host (“blacked out” listing) or cessation of activity (deleted listing). SA2 level boundaries are used.

Fig. 4.11

Note Only available listings are considered. Unavailability may refer to occupation by a guest (booking), availability not provided by the host (“blacked out” listing) or cessation of activity (deleted listing). To estimate occupancy rates, Inside Airbnb’s “San Francisco model” has been used (see Inside Airbnb, 2017). Amongst others, a review rate of 50% is used to convert reviews to estimated bookings. The average length of stay for Airbnb users in Western Australia has been set at 4.1 nights for the purpose of this modelling.

Fig. 4.12

Note Only available listings are considered. Unavailability may refer to occupation by a guest (booking), availability not provided by the host (“blacked out” listing) or cessation of activity (deleted listing).

Fig. 4.13

Note Only available listings are considered. Unavailability may refer to occupation by a guest (booking), availability not provided by the host (“blacked out” listing) or cessation of activity (deleted listing). SA2 level boundaries are used.

Fig. 4.14

Note Only available listings are considered. Unavailability may refer to occupation by a guest (booking), availability not provided by the host (“blacked out” listing) or cessation of activity (deleted listing). SA2 level boundaries are used.

Fig. 4.15

Note Only available listings are considered. Unavailability may refer to occupation by a guest (booking), availability not provided by the host (“blacked out” listing) or cessation of activity (deleted listing). SA2 level boundaries are used.

Fig. 4.16

Note Only available listings are considered. Unavailability may refer to occupation by a guest (booking), availability not provided by the host (“blacked out” listing) or cessation of activity (deleted listing).

Fig. 4.17

Note Only available listings are considered. Unavailability may refer to occupation by a guest (booking), availability not provided by the host (“blacked out” listing) or cessation of activity (deleted listing). SA2 level boundaries are used.

Notes

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    SA2 stands for “statistic area level 2”, which is a spatial circumscription used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and has been introduced to replace “Statistical Local Areas” (SLAs) to get a more consistent population size. SA2 is comparable with suburbs at city level and with smaller towns plus surroundings in rural areas. SA2 levels might not necessarily align with Government Area boundaries (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2017).

    Fig. 4.6
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    Note Only available listings are considered. Unavailability may refer to occupation by a guest (booking), availability not provided by the host (“blacked out” listing) or cessation of activity (deleted listing). SA2 level boundaries are used.

    Distribution of estimated Airbnb listing numbers in Western Australia (February 2020).

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    Fig. 4.7
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    Note Only available listings are considered. Unavailability may refer to occupation by a guest (booking), availability not provided by the host (“blacked out” listing) or cessation of activity (deleted listing). SA2 level boundaries are used.

    Location of Airbnb listings in Western Australia: Focus on Perth metropolitan area (February 2020).

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    Christof Pforr, Michael Volgger, Sara Cavalcanti Marques & Aji Cahya Nusantara

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Pforr, C., Volgger, M., Cavalcanti Marques, S., Cahya Nusantara, A. (2021). Airbnb Supply in Western Australia. In: Understanding and Managing the Impact of Airbnb. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2952-5_4

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