New data shows travelers are increasingly choosing to explore the world on their own, as solo travel increased by 33 percent on Airbnb last year. Amid this trend and to support our growing community of solo travelers, we’ve expanded our dedicated safety-focused Solo Traveler Safety feature to guests in over 50 languages, following successful pilots in English and Hindi.
Airbnb strives to be a place where anyone can feel safe while traveling, whether with friends, family or by themselves, and our Solo Traveler Safety feature aims to support guests traveling solo in a private or shared room on Airbnb.
When a solo guest books a private or shared room reservation, this specialized in-app experience is activated and provides that guest with access to three key features: Expert tips they may want to try to help stay safe when traveling solo; an easy way to share their Airbnb itinerary with anyone they choose; and prompts from Airbnb suggesting important questions to ask the Host about their listing and neighborhood.
The expansion of this product to more users in more languages accompanies the rise in self-reported solo travel on Airbnb, up 33 percent globally in Q1 through Q3 in 2022 compared to the same time in 2021. Almost a quarter of nights booked worldwide on Airbnb in 2022 were by guests traveling on their own, with long term stays especially popular among solo guests and making up about half of all nights booked. Self-reported female guests are also increasingly taking solo trips, with nights booked by this group rising almost 30 percent globally in Q1 through Q3 in 2022 compared to 2021.
