Airbnb says people living in the Lower Mainland who decide to rent out their homes to visitors during the FIFA World Cup could receive up to $1,000 as an incentive.<\/p>\n
The newly launched program targets only new hosts signing up to the short-term accommodations online marketplace company.<\/p>\n
The program runs from now to the end of the soccer competition.<\/p>\n
Airbnb spokesperson Matt McNama tells CityNews that the incentive\u2019s goal is to make more room for the large number of visitors expected to visit Vancouver for the FIFA 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe parameters are essentially as long as you are a first-time host and you are welcoming your first guest anytime between now and the end of the tournament, you can earn $1,000,\u201d McNama said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s in addition to the money you would earn as a host by booking guests. We anticipate that the host of Vancouver could earn about $4,200 over the duration of the tournament by hosting the guests from around the world, and that can go up or down depending on how much you want to host.\u201d<\/p>\n
The program, however, has one catch. There is a fee associated with Airbnb that people have to pay in order to join as a host in Vancouver.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s $1,000, I believe, to register for Vancouver,\u201d McNama added.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will say that that is a high fee, probably one of the larger ones in North America. So, it does become a little bit of a barrier to entry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vancouver will host seven matches, with BC Place being the stage for the games. The stadium can fit around 54,000 fans per match.<\/p>\n
An official FIFA Fan Festival is planned to take place on the grounds of the PNE between June 13 and July 7.<\/p>\n
In total, Vancouver and its surrounding cities are expecting about 350,000 visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airbnb says people living in the Lower Mainland who decide to rent out their homes to visitors during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-541516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}