Airbnb Edges Out Home-Rental Rival With 6 Million Listings
- Booking comes in close behind with more than 5.7 million
- Rivals both had over $1 billion in 3Q revenue from homeshares
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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Competition in the home-rental business just got tighter with two of the biggest players releasing new data in an attempt to outshine one another.
Airbnb Inc. plans to announce Friday that it now has six million global listings. This means the startup now has more listings "than the six largest hotel groups have rooms, combined," the company said in a statement. The new figure places San Francisco-based Airbnb a nose ahead of Booking Holdings Inc., which reported earlier this week it had more than 5.7 million home-rental listings as of the end of December.