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Neighbourhood Watch and Airbnb promote safer communities

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Building a safe and trusted community doesn’t end with Hosts and guests on Airbnb. By taking action to build relationships and maintain trust within your neighbourhood, we can all make local communities stronger.

Together with founding member of the UK Trust and Safety Alliance, Neighbourhood Watch, we’ve launched a Good Neighbour Campaign to help combat rare instances of anti-social behaviour on our platform and promote responsible travel.

Airbnb and Neighbourhood Watch have produced two guides for both Hosts and guests, with useful tips on building resilient community networks, how to be a considerate neighbour, and protecting your home.

Earlier this year, experts from Neighbourhood Watch also delivered a virtual session to Hosts, sharing advice on how Hosts and guests can work together to actively contribute to building stronger, safer communities.

Download the Host guide and guest guide.

For more information on community safety, visit https://www.ourwatch.org.uk/
Read more about: Partnerships, Trust & Safety Hub, UK

About Airbnb

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 billion guest arrivals across over 220 countries and regions. Travel on Airbnb keeps more of the financial benefits of tourism with the people and places that make it happen. Airbnb has generated billions of dollars in earnings for Hosts, most of whom are individuals listing the homes in which they live. Among Hosts who report their gender, more than half are women, and one in five employed Hosts are either teachers or healthcare workers. Travel on Airbnb also has generated more than $4 billion in tax revenue around the world. Airbnb has helped advance more than 1,000 regulatory frameworks for short-term rentals, including in 80% of our top 200 geographies. In late 2020, to support our continued expansion and diversification, we launched the City Portal to provide governments with a one-stop shop that supports data sharing and compliance with local registration rules. We continue to invest in innovations and tools to support our ongoing work with governments around the world to advance travel that best serves communities.

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