HOUSTON – As Halloween creeps right around the corner, Airbnb is reminding people of the heightened anti-party defenses it launched across the U.S. and Canada.
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In 2023, the popular short-term rental booking company said it deterred about 4,000 people from booking an entire home listing for a Halloween party. In Houston alone, it was about 700 people.
The technology Airbnb relies on works as a leveraging machine learning to try and identify one-night and two-night booking attempts of entire homes that could potentially have a higher risk for a party and keep them from being made. It also looks at hundreds of triggering signals like if the stay is being booked at the last minute or the length of the trip and distance to the listing.
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Across the U.S. and Canada, about 37,000 people were deterred from booking Airbnbs last Halloween and the company says it saw a decrease in reports of disruptive parties over that Holiday weekend.
“The overwhelming majority of Airbnb guests are responsible travelers, and issues are rare,” Tara Bunch, Global Head of Operations at Airbnb said in a press statement. “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.”
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To learn more about Airbnb’s anti-party measures, click here.