Airbnb Visualizations for Hosts at Bordeaux, France

We created this tool for three closely related audiences:

• Potential host with a property: current Bordeaux home/apartment owners thinking about becoming Airbnb hosts.
• Potential host without a property: looking into buying a vacation or investment property in Bordeaux and listing the property on Airbnb to offset the cost.
• Existing host: have an Airbnb property and want to maximize profits or increase bookings in an increasingly competitive market.

Our Goal for the project is to better inform hosts where business opportunity lies and how to price and market their properties. Some insight we hope to draw out in our visualizations is the relationship between the “type” of rental or the “location” of the rental with the price that the rental commands. By type we are referencing characteristics of the rental itself such as room or entire apartment, number of beds, amenities, etc. Generally, as to be expected find price correlates with the larger rentals and rentals that are found in more desirable neighborhoods. But this is not always the case, or there may be opportunities for hosts to increase profit in certain areas of with certain rental characteristics.