November 2021
November 2021 was a month of record results and new terms for hosts. Airbnb reported its highest quarterly revenue and net income on 4 November and launched AirCover on 9 November, with $1 million in damage protection and published limits. The Scottish Government said on 23 November that its revised licensing order for short-term lets had been laid before Parliament. Vacasa reported record revenue ahead of its planned merger, Airbnb restricted New Year's Eve bookings, and the Dutch Supreme Court ruled on fees charged to guests.
A look back, written in October 2026 from sources published in November 2021. Stay Gazette opened in July 2026.
Platforms · 9 November 2021Airbnb Launches AirCover With $1 Million in Damage Protection for HostsAirbnb said AirCover applied free and automatically to every host, with $1 million in damage protection, $1 million in liability coverage and protection for pet damage, deep cleaning and lost income. Its own help page said the damage protection was not an insurance policy, and set deadlines and exclusions.By Jesse Kohl · Filed 11 October 2026 · 7 min read
World · 23 November 2021Scotland Puts Its Short-Term Let Licensing Order Back Before ParliamentThe Scottish Government said on 23 November 2021 that a revised licensing order for short-term lets had been laid before the Scottish Parliament, after the first was withdrawn in February 2021. If members approved it, every let in Scotland would need a license by 1 July 2024.By Tomás Ferreira · Filed 11 October 2026 · 7 min read
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What else was reported in November 2021
- 4 November 2021Airbnb reported third-quarter 2021 revenue of $2.2 billion, 36% higher than in the third quarter of 2019, and net income of $834 million, and said host earnings reached a record $12.8 billion in the quarter. Airbnb Newsroom
- 2 November 2021ShortTermRentalz reported on 2 November 2021 that Airbnb would bar guests without a history of positive reviews from making one-night New Year's Eve reservations in entire home listings in the UK, the US, Canada, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, France and Spain, and that 243,000 guests were blocked when the restrictions were piloted the year before. ShortTermRentalz
- 3 November 2021ShortTermRentalz reported on 3 November 2021 that Israel's finance, interior and housing ministers had set out a housing plan whose proposed measures included prohibiting homeowners in areas of peak housing demand, likely Tel Aviv, from listing homes on short-term rental platforms; the measures were proposals in a draft budget. ShortTermRentalz
- 15 November 2021Vacasa, the vacation rental manager preparing to go public through a merger with TPG Pace Solutions, reported third-quarter revenue of $330 million, a record and 77% more than in the same period a year earlier, and said it had more than 35,000 homes on its platform, ShortTermRentalz reported. ShortTermRentalz
- 16 November 2021Airbnb said it had introduced a tool to collect and remit tourist taxes from guests on behalf of hosts throughout Italy, open for municipalities to sign up since 10 November and for hosts starting in 2022, bringing more than 1,000 tourist tax rules into a single system. Airbnb Newsroom
- 19 November 2021The Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled on 19 November 2021, answering questions from a Rotterdam court in a case over the service fee Airbnb charged a guest, that the Dutch rule barring an agent from charging the tenant a fee did not apply to short-term rental of vacation accommodation offered on a platform such as Airbnb. Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (Supreme Court of the Netherlands), rechtspraak.nl