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> In 2021, around 20% of our nights booked were for stays of a month or longer, and nearly 50% for a week or longer

This one is surprising, but not totally unexpected I guess. Airbnb is slowly replacing short term leases and sublets, and I imagine this will be a huge growth driver for them as remote work and the nomad lifestyle becomes more common.

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I find this to be an unintuitive metric, as nights that are part of longer bookings are oversampled as there are more nights in longer bookings

yes, but also more money changes hands in longer bookings, so maybe num bookings is the unintuitive metric. Def worth pointing out that both are biased in one way or the other though.

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