Co-hosts can help listing owners take care of their home, Airbnb Experience, and guests. They're often a family member, neighbor, trusted friend, or someone the host has hired to help with their home or experience listing.
If you create either a home or experience listing, you can invite other people to your listing for some extra help. A co-host can help you do things like manage your listing, respond to inquiries, or message booked guests, so you can focus on other things.
For homes, the listing owner or a co-host with full-access permissions can add a co-host to their Airbnb listing.
For experiences, only the listing owner can add a co-host to an experience listing. A full-access permissions co-host can also add co-hosts—but can only give limited access to the calendar and messaging.
Hosts and co-hosts need to communicate well and be clear about:
In select countries, listing owner home hosts can find high-quality, local hosts on the Co-Host Network to support hosting, from setting up listings to welcoming guests. Learn more about how to join the Co-Host Network.
What co-hosts for homes hosts can do
Co-hosts can support Airbnb home hosts in different ways. Permissions can be set up for each co-host to choose what they can access and manage on your listing.
Co-hosting tips for home hosts
We asked top-rated Airbnb home hosts and co-hosts for their best tips for working together to provide wonderful stays for their guests.
Add co-hosts to your home listing
How to invite a new co-host and choose permissions.
Remove a co-host from your listing
How hosts and full-access co-hosts can remove co-hosts on a listing.
Remove yourself as a co-host from a listing
How co-hosts can remove themselves from a listing.
How co-host payouts work for homes hosts
Home hosts can choose to set up co-host payouts to share payouts with a co-host on Airbnb, subject to geographic restrictions.
Co-host taxes and payouts for home hosts
Keep your taxpayer information updated and make sure that your account is in compliance to avoid any disruptions in receiving your payouts for your home.
Ratings and reviews for co-hosts
When guests leave a review for your home after their trip, it will show up on the listing page as well as the profile page for the listing admin.
What Airbnb Experiences co-hosts can do
Experience co-hosts have full access to the experience listing that they’ve been invited to, which means that they will be able to update the listing, accept or decline booking inquiries, view the calendar, manage dates and times, and message guests before, during, and after their experience. Only co-hosts who meet Airbnb’s standards and requirements can host experiences.
Add co-hosts to your Airbnb Experience
If you want help managing your experience, you can invite a co-host to help you lead reservations or work behind the scenes. Once a co-host completes our identity verification process, they can be added to your listing. If a co-host is going to host reservations, they’ll need to provide additional information and meet applicable Airbnb standards and requirements before they can be assigned to reservations and displayed on your listing.
How to join an Airbnb Experience as a co-host
When a host invites you to join as a co-host for their experience, you’ll receive an email with an invite.