That article is from 2014. This one from 2017 says otherwise. https://skift.com/2017/03/10/airbnbs-growth-is-being-driven-by-commercial-operators-report-says/

That article is from 2014. This one from 2017 says otherwise. https://skift.com/2017/03/10/airbnbs-growth-is-being-driven-by-commercial-operators-report-says/ https://skift.com/2017/03/10/airbnbs-growth-is-being-driven-... In the US as a whole, 64% were renting out an entire home unit. Obviously, some of those could be owner-occupiers letting their own home whilst on holiday themselves. I have no trouble believing that Uber and AirBnB may have started out as facilitators of sharing. However, that is not what they have become. I may be wrong in saying "most hosts". There is a potential long tail of thousands of not-very-active spare-room hosts. However, do such operators count much terms of numbers of stays and money spent?