Amidst concerns about a second wave of the pandemic and to strengthen our hosts’ protection against parties, last week Airbnb announced that we’ll be prohibiting one-night reservations over Halloween weekend in entire home listings throughout the US and Canada. In addition, we’ll bolster our existing protections and technologies aimed at stopping as many large gatherings as possible that weekend.

Today we’re sharing new data about our work to combat parties in New Jersey.

Nearly a year ago, we announced that we had expanded the manual screening of high-risk reservations flagged by our automated systems. This technology helps us to stop parties before they start. Since the expansion of our manual review of high-risk reservations last year, more than 200 reservations in New Jersey have been cancelled. Further, our restrictions on guests under the age of 25 from booking entire-home listings locally, combined with our restrictions on very last-minute bookings, have redirected over 17,000 guests to private room listings or hotel rooms throughout New Jersey to date.

This follows our recent actions to suspend or remove 35 listings throughout the state that received complaints or otherwise violated our policies on parties and events.

To learn more about this update on our work to stop parties, visit the link below:

https://news.airbnb.com/airbnb-announces-progress-on-efforts-to-stop-parties-and-large-gatherings/