Airbnb rolls out anti-party defenses in Florida for Memorial Day and July 4 weekends

BRADENTON — As summer approaches, Airbnb is rolling out anti-party technology across the US and Puerto Rico to help reduce the risk of unauthorized and disruptive parties over the Memorial Day and Fourth of July weekends. 

The anti-party defenses active over these summer holidays use machine learning to help prevent potentially higher-risk bookings of entire home listings from being made, and help enforce Airbnb’s global party ban. Guests attempting to book will either be blocked from doing so or redirected to alternative accommodations on the platform.

Last year, these defenses deterred approximately 51,000 people in the US from booking, and saw a reduction in the number of parties reported over these summer holidays. Specifically in Florida, approximately 7,400 people were deterred from booking an entire home listing on Airbnb last year across both summer holiday weekends. 

It’s important to note that parties remain extremely rare on Airbnb. In 2024, just 0.08% of reservations in Florida resulted in an allegation of a party. What’s more, thanks in part to proactive measures like our anti-party technology, we’ve seen a 46% decrease in the rate of party reports to us in Florida since introducing our global party ban policy in 2020.

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