“You can see this play itself out around something like Comic-Con where you can see a pretty significant delta between the average Airbnb listing and what a typical hotel costs.

“One of their chief concerns is that Airbnb and other home sharing platforms impact their ability to limit supply and drive up prices because Airbnb puts more supply into the market,” said Airbnb global policy chief Chris Lehane. Meanwhile, the home-sharing company argues that the industry’s strategy is to try to tamp down the supply of Airbnb listings so it can gouge consumers during high-demand periods. The American Hotel & Lodging Industry has claimed that Airbnb’s business is increasingly driven by commercial operators renting out multiple units, labeling some as illegal operators. In recent months, Airbnb and the lodging industry have been trading accusations, using competing reports and analyses to attack one another. And for Airbnb, the rates over the four-day period this month are expected to be up 23 percent over one week earlier, the company says. Over the last four years, the daily hotel rate during Comic-Con is between 31 percent and 37 percent higher than the previous weekend in July, the STR numbers show. For nights when hotel occupancy is over 95 percent, the average daily rate premium still seems to be what it was before the advent of Airbnb, around 30 percent.” “The added Airbnb supply does not seem to have a discernible impact on pricing within the local hotel community. “If Airbnb has a large impact on pricing, we’re not finding that in our data,” said Jan Freitag, senior vice president with STR, formerly Smith Travel Research. Hotel rates during the pop culture extravaganza have increased 14 percent between 20, according to STR, a research firm that tracks hotel performance throughout the country.

That discount, though, doesn’t seem to be hobbling the pricing powers of Comic-Con.

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