Inflation News
Travel After the Pandemic: Rising Prices and How Tourists Are Coping with Vacation Inflation in 2025
Travel after the pandemic now costs more for everyone. Demand spikes, reduced airline capacity, dynamic pricing, ancillary fees, increased lodging tax, and local surcharges have caused an increase in the price of airfare, lodging, ground transportation, and guided tours. This phenomenon is now being generally referred to as vacation inflation, hotel price inflation, and general hiking of prices across the trip spectrum.
While inflation in the US rises, new Hosts grow in Q2 2022
Countries with an increase in inflation saw an increase in the number of new Airbnb Hosts in Q2 2022. New Hosts alone earned a combined total of over $1.8 billion in 2021, up more than 30 percent from 2019 – with a typical Host in the US earning over $13,800 in 2021, an increase of 85 percent over 2019.