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Mapped: A Snapshot of the Airbnb Landscape in Three Megacities
Visualizing the Airbnb Landscape in Three Megacities
Since its inception in 2008, Airbnb has grown into one of the most popular travel and short-term accommodation apps on the market.
In 2021 alone, there were more than 300 million bookings (for both accommodation and experiences) made through the app.
To visualize just how massive the Airbnb landscape has become in major cities, this graphic by Preyash Shah shows every single listing in New York, London, and Paris.
About the Data
To make this graphic, Shah used September 2022 data from insideairbnb.com, a website that pulls data directly from the Airbnb app. Once collected, the raw data was then cleaned to include active listings only fitting a few key parameters:
- Any listing that did not have a review in 2022 was removed
- The most expensive listings were individually checked to ensure the listing price matched the actual historical price and removed if there was a major discrepancy. This is due to inactive listings that are extremely marked up instead of de-listed
After scrubbing the data, each city’s immediate metro area was left with roughly 20,000 listings.
As the data shows, a majority of these listings were for entire apartments. Paris had the biggest share, with about 85% of listings for entire apartments rather than private or shared rooms.
This is especially interesting considering that Paris has extremely strict regulations around short-term rentals and Airbnb usage, one being that an Airbnb rental must be someone’s primary residence.
Airbnb’s Beginnings
Two co-founders of Airbnb include Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, two roommates in San Francisco.
In an act of desperation, they decided to set up and rent out a few air mattresses on the floor of their apartment to help pay their rent. Free breakfast was included with the stay, and after getting $80 a night for each mattress, Chesky and Gebbia knew they were onto something.
Yet, while Airbnb has shown great success over the last decade, it’s received its fair share of criticism from skeptics. Because of concerns over housing supply and price gouging, many cities have put restrictions around the use of Airbnb, or even outright banned the platform.
Like other technology companies, Airbnb has had a challenging year in the stock market. Once valued at $113 billion in 2021, the company is currently sitting closer to a $60 billion market capitalization today.

This article was published as a part of Visual Capitalist's Creator Program, which features data-driven visuals from some of our favorite Creators around the world.
Technology
Visualizing the Top Emerging Technologies of 2025
We show the top 10 emerging tech of 2025, from structural battery composites to engineered living therapeutics.

Visualizing the Top 10 Emerging Tech of 2025
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Key Takeaways
- Structural battery composites and collaborative sensing stand among the top emerging technologies of 2025.
- Additionally, engineered living therapeutics are an emerging technology that enable drugs to be produced within the body.
- Technologies that make this list, compiled by WEF, are assessed on their societal impact, depth, and state of adoption.
As innovation accelerates at a breakneck speed, several emerging technologies stand to reshape industries and society.
From health care to materials science, technologies across multiple fields are at a tipping point. While many fail to achieve real-world applications, a select few break through the mold and gain commercial success.
This graphic shows the top 10 emerging technologies of 2025, based on analysis from the World Economic Forum.
The Most Promising Emerging Tech of the Year
In particular, the analysis highlights technologies at an early stage of adoption with the potential to reshape society.
While some of these technologies may still take years to fully commercialize, others are already gaining traction. Below, we show the top 10 emerging tech of 2025:
Technology | Description |
---|---|
🔋 Structural battery composites | Batteries that store energy in part of a frame, such as a car's body panel |
🌊 Osmotic power systems (blue energy) | Special membranes that generate electricity through the differing salt concentration between seawater and freshwater |
⚛️ Advanced nuclear technologies | Decrease costs, simplify designs, and improve safety |
🧬 Engineered living therapeutics | Programming microbes within the body to produce drugs internally |
🧠 GLP-1s for neurodegenerative disease | Re-engineering weight loss drugs to treat neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimers or Parkinson's |
🩺 Autonomous biochemical sensors | Remote monitoring of health and biochemical markers in real time |
🌱 Green nitrogen fixation | Sustainable production of ammonia used in fertilizer |
🧪 Nanozymes | Synthetic enzyme-like nanomaterials for healthcare and industry applications |
📡 Collaborative sensing | Distributed sensors combined with AI for better decision-making and autonomous technologies |
🖋️ Generative watermarking | Invisible watermarks on AI content to trace origins and promote accountability |
In the realm of health care, engineered living therapeutics offer a radical new approach: using programmed microbes that can produce medicine within the body itself.
This could revolutionize the treatment of chronic illnesses and dramatically lower the cost of delivering life-saving therapies. Similarly, the rise of GLP-1-based treatments, originally designed for diabetes and obesity, is now showing potential in slowing the progression of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
On the energy front, advanced nuclear technologies, including modular reactors, are gaining momentum as scalable and safer sources of clean energy—vital in the global push to decarbonize.
Meanwhile, collaborative sensing—the use of interconnected sensors to gather real-time data—has applications ranging from smart cities to environmental monitoring, enabling faster and more informed decision-making.
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