{"id":238655,"date":"2018-04-17T15:33:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T13:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=238655"},"modified":"2018-04-18T07:52:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T05:52:58","slug":"how-much-airbnb-hosts-earn-in-joburg-vs-cape-town-vs-durban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/238655\/how-much-airbnb-hosts-earn-in-joburg-vs-cape-town-vs-durban\/","title":{"rendered":"How much Airbnb hosts earn in Joburg vs Cape Town vs Durban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airbnb has released new data on how the home sharing community has impacted tourism in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data, South Africa welcomed nearly 830,000 inbound guests last year, and 551,000 outbound guests travelled from South Africa to other destinations, creating over a million connections across the world.<\/p>\n<p>These incoming guests also brought money with them, and the data shows that the typical South African host earned R24,633 renting out their space for an average of 17 nights.<\/p>\n<p>This is well below the average income earned by Cape Town&#8217;s Airbnb hosts, who earned an average of R39,348 renting out their space for an average of 27 nights a year.<\/p>\n<p>However it is also well above Johannesburg&#8217;s Airbnb hosts, which earned an average of just R15,969 renting out their space for an average of 24 nights a year.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the full city breakdown below.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Cape Town<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Typical guest arrivals: <strong>350,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Total guest countries of origin: over <strong>150<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Typical nights hosted per listing: <strong>27<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Typical income earned per host: <strong>R39,348<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Number of guests travelling from Cape Town to other destinations:<strong> 173,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/capetown-e1499776972451.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-184657 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/capetown-e1499776972451.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Johannesburg\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Typical guest arrivals: <strong>60,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Total guest countries of origin: <strong>133<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Typical nights hosted per listing: <strong>24<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Typical income earned per host:<strong> R15,969<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Number of guests travelling from Johannesburg to other destinations: <strong>168,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Johannesburg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116610 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Johannesburg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Johannesburg.png 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Johannesburg-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Durban\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Typical guest arrivals: <strong>40,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Total guest countries of origin: <strong>104<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Typical nights hosted per listing: <strong>13<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Typical income earned per host: <strong>R20,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Number of guests travelling from Durban to other destinations: <strong>36,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Durban-header.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-206515\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Durban-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Durban-header.jpg 640w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Durban-header-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update:<\/strong> a previous version of the story had the incorrect supplied value for Durban hosts. This has since been corrected by Airbnb and reflected in the story.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/237275\/how-much-a-cape-town-airbnb-host-makes-in-a-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How much a Cape Town Airbnb host makes in a year<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbnb has released new data on how the the home sharing community has impacted tourism in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":94277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[10201,26],"class_list":["post-238655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-airbnb","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238655"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238803,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238655\/revisions\/238803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}