More than 8.6M Spaniards have used Airbnb this year

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

About 18.6% of inhabitants between 16 and 74 years used applications or websites specialized in being intermediaries between individuals to arrange holiday accommodations

More than 8 million Spaniards use Airbnb. Around 18.6% of the Spanish population between 16 and 74 years have used a web page or application specialized in intermediation between individuals to arrange holiday accommodation.

This means that more than 8.6 million Spaniards have used this type of platform to rent holiday accommodation, according to the survey on equipment and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in homes in 2019 published by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

In any case, the percentage of the total number of Spaniards who have used this type of platforms in the last 12 months has decreased compared to the 2018 data, when it reached 21% and 9.8 million users.

In this sense, the number of Spaniards that use this type of applications is higher than that used to arrange transport services between individuals, which in the last twelve months was 8.5% of the total, that is, 3.9 million of Spaniards.

In both cases, there have been fewer people who have used these services compared to the survey published in 2018. In the case of transport, the drop has been 0.7 percentage points and almost half a million users.

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

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