Statistical Overview of Barcelona’s Airbnb Market

<p>This article follows an exploratory data analysis of Barcelona’s Airbnb economy. Airbnb is extremely popular in Barcelona and works parallel to the big hotel industry. <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/bishopjordan/2017/04/05/airbnb-paris-london-nyc-la-barcelona-rome-infographic/#5d0fac0d4127" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Forbes</a> mentions Barcelona is now the third-biggest city for Airbnb rentals in Europe behind Paris and London and the sixth-biggest in the world. Barcelona’s Airbnb activity has also been the subject of political and legal actions carried against the hosts using the platform. The city is acting to remove thousands of properties from the platform which didn’t have a <a href="http://aldianews.com/articles/culture/barcelona-crackdown-airbnb-model-follow/52926" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">tourist license</a> and were <a href="https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/06/barcelona-finds-a-way-to-control-its-airbnb-market/562187/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">shut down</a>. According to available data, Airbnb usage in Barcelona is only increasing every year with more hosts setting up listings on the platform.</p> <h1>Airbnb Data Source</h1> <p>Airbnb doesn’t share raw data, however some of the data is available using <a href="http://insideairbnb.com/get-the-data.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Inside Airbnb</a> which makes Airbnb data accessible by using publicly available information from the Airbnb site. The data is a snapshot of searchable listings from 07 February, 2018. The data includes:</p> <p><a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/statistical-overview-of-barcelonas-airbnb-market-83dc7d6be648"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>