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> I have no idea if people who are going to an event in Detroit might decide to stay in Dearborn.

They would if they've never been to Detroit and when searching for listings, AirBnB has lumped all nearby listings into the Detroit category. It makes sense as mentioned elsewhere when combined with the information that Detroit recently (effectively?) banned AirBnB.

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This suggest to me that Air Bnb has not done it's due diligence. They seem not to have a sense of what would attract one to one destination over another, or the demographic of the travelers. My guests in Dearborn have tended to be older, and they travel specifically to go to Henry Ford/greenfield village for things such as Maker Faire and car shows.

AirBNB should probably let hosts have some input into how their room/space appears in searches. The kind of knowledge you just posted would have been accounted for in the old days by business people who decided to when and where to build hotels. Such information probably doesn't exist in maps, though some hotel chains might have such info.

Great idea!

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