In the past year, 100,000 guests booked stays of three months or longer, says Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky

New Delhi: As remote work become the new norm amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Airbnb’s cofounder and chief executive Brian Chesky, said that from July to September, one in every five nights booked on its platform were for stays of a month or longer. He also added that nearly half of the nights booked were for stays of a week or longer.

In a Twitter thread Thursday, Chesky said that “in the past year, 100,000 Airbnb guests booked stays of three months or longer”.



Chesky said that he too was going to start staying in an Airbnb accommodation. “Starting today, I'm living on Airbnb. I’ll be staying in a different town or city every couple weeks.”

The biggest trend in travel in 2022 will be people spreading out to thousands of towns and cities, staying for weeks, months, or even entire seasons at a time, he said. More people will start living abroad, others will travel for the entire summer, and some will even give up their leases and become digital nomads.


Cities and countries will compete to attract these remote workers, and it will lead to a redistribution of where people travel and live, Chesky said. This trend is kind of like a decentralization of living, and it’s changing the identity of travel. Earlier, the Airbnb founder had said the new trends born from the pandemic are likely to stay. "People aren’t just travelling on Airbnb, they’re now living on Airbnb," he had said. Working from home has spurred flexibility in terms of where and how people live or how long they stay in one place.

In November last year, Airbnb reported its strongest quarter ever in the third quarter of 2021, with revenue topping $2.2 billion. Its net income surged 280% to $834 million on a y-o-y basis.