If you’ve booked an Airbnb for December 31 in Sydney with intentions of holding the mother of all New Year’s Eve beanos, be warned – the short-stay accommodation provider is onto you.
Airbnb says it is “rolling out anti-party technology to help reduce the risk of authorised and disruptive parties over NYE”, with Australia, New Zealand, the US, Puerto Rico, Canada, the UK, France and Spain.
Last year it said around 74,000 people around the world were “deterred” from booking on NYE. Remarkably, 4,200 of them were in Texas, USA (no figures were supplied for Australia).
“This anti-party technology uses machine learning to identify and block potentially higher-risk bookings of entire home listings from being made,” Airbnb said.
Airbnb NYE 2024.
“Airbnb’s defences assess a number of signals – including the length of the trip, the type of listing, how far the listing is from the guest’s location, and when the reservation is being made – to help determine the…
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