Your Airbnb + AI Hosting Playbook for Summer 2025 🌞🤖🏡
New services, smarter tools, AI-powered tips, and must-know safety guidance to help you earn more and host with confidence.
This quick guide brings together Airbnb’s biggest updates for summer. Whether you’re a host, traveler, or hospitality pro, these changes are designed to help you create better experiences, use emerging tech, and stay prepared for anything.
🔍 What’s Inside
New Airbnb Services & Experiences you can offer or book
AI tools that simplify hosting and guest communications
Disaster prep tips for hurricane and wildfire season
A redesigned Airbnb app for smoother hosting and traveling
How Airbnb.org supports communities during disasters
Links to apply as a service or experience host
✅ Start Here: More to Offer, More to Prepare For
Airbnb just launched new ways to earn—from spa services to private chefs. At the same time, summer brings hurricane and wildfire risks. Smart hosts are preparing on both fronts.
Importantly, hosts are automatically opted into Airbnb’s new service provider program. If you do not want outside providers—like chefs, massage therapists, or stylists—coming into your property, you’ll need to manually opt out in your settings.
It’s also worth considering: this program introduces third-party vendors into your space. Think about whether you’re comfortable with unknown local service providers working in your property during a guest stay.
💡 Why It Matters: More income streams + better guest safety = stronger hosting all season long—but only if you're comfortable with how services are delivered.
Whether you’re a host, thinking about becoming one, or just part of the hospitality world, this update matters. You can now offer more, create better stays, and still stay prepared if things get unpredictable.
Let’s break it down.
🍽️ You Can Now Airbnb More Than a Place to Stay
You and your guests can now book licensed pros for massages, chef-prepared meals, yoga, and more—all through the Airbnb app.
Available services include:
In-home chefs
Massage and spa experiences
Personal training and workouts
Beauty and grooming
Catering, meal prep, and photography
It’s hotel-level service, but local, flexible, and often under $50.
🧑🍳 Want to host a service? Apply here.
💡 Why It Matters: You can turn skills—not just space—into earnings.
🌍 Airbnb Experiences Just Got an Upgrade
Experiences now focus more on authentic local connections and less on tourist checklists.
Now booking:
Food tours with chefs
Art, fashion, and cultural workshops
Outdoor adventures
Wellness and one-of-a-kind activities
Airbnb Originals with top-tier hosts and celebs
💡 Why It Matters: These are bookable at home or away, opening more ways to earn or explore—even if you're not traveling.
📲 The Airbnb App Got a Full Redesign
Now everything—homes, services, and experiences—is in one seamless interface.
New features include:
Explore Tab: Browse events, homes, and services
Trips Tab: See your full travel itinerary
Messages: Send photos, videos, even payments
Cleaner Host Tools: Manage listings, calendars, pricing, and services
💡 Why It Matters: Easier tools = less stress, faster bookings, and smoother communication.
🤖 Smarter Hosting with AI Tools
From guest messaging to content creation, AI is becoming a behind-the-scenes partner for modern hosts.
Use AI to:
Write personalized welcome messages or digital guidebooks
Automatically respond to common guest questions
Analyze reviews for patterns and improvements
Create listing descriptions and social media posts quickly
💡 Why It Matters: AI saves time, enhances your brand, and helps deliver faster, more polished guest interactions.
🌪️ Don’t Forget Safety
With help from Americares, Airbnb now offers disaster-readiness tips for hosts.
Key steps:
Post local emergency contacts and shelter maps in your rental
Add weather info to house rules or welcome notes
Update guests early about any threats
Trim trees, check drains, and prep your space
Airbnb’s Major Disruptive Events Policy also waives fees for cancellations during natural disasters.
💡 Why It Matters: Guests stay safer, and you avoid penalties when things go wrong.
🆘 Support with Airbnb.org
Airbnb.org helps families and relief workers find temporary housing during disasters—often free or deeply discounted.
Airbnb waives all booking fees
Free AirCover for participating hosts
Active during fires, floods, and major crises
💡 Why It Matters: You can help your community and still be protected as a host.
📲 Everything you read here is already live in the Airbnb app. Go explore more at Airbnb NewsRoom
✍️ Prompt: Build a One-Week Ad Plan to Promote Your Airbnb Updates with AI
✅ Paste this into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini—any AI tool you like. Fill in the [brackets] with your property info, and you’ll get a plug-and-play ad plan in minutes.
I manage marketing for a [vacation rental / boutique stay / hospitality brand], and I want a simple 7-day ad plan to promote:
Our summer upgrades
Airbnb’s new Services and Experiences
Seasonal travel tips (like how guests can stay safe during hurricane and wildfire season)
My goals:
Drive direct bookings, boost engagement on Instagram and Facebook, and help guests feel confident and excited about planning their trip.Give me:
A goal for each day (awareness, engagement, conversion, etc.)
Caption ideas + suggested visuals (reels, carousels, etc.)
One AI-friendly tip per day (e.g., ChatGPT for captions, Canva for visuals)
A simple method to track and improve performance
A smart way to turn newsletter content into ads (to save time and budget)
Make it easy to follow and useful for a solo marketer or small hospitality team.
🎯 What You’ll Get from This Prompt
By using this prompt in ChatGPT (or any AI assistant), you’ll walk away with:
A complete 7-day ad plan tailored to your property and your current offers
Done-for-you captions that match each campaign goal (awareness, offer, retargeting, etc.)
Creative direction with suggested visuals for Instagram and Facebook
AI-powered tips that help you create faster with tools you already use (like Canva, ChatGPT, Meta Ads)
Simple performance tracking ideas that won’t overwhelm a small team
Smart reuse of your newsletter or blog content so nothing goes to waste
💡 In just one AI prompt, you’ll have a full week of branded, targeted, high-impact content—without the stress of starting from scratch.
⏰ New Schedule, Same Smart Vibes
📅 Starting next week, your Smart Pineapple newsletter will arrive every Tuesday instead of Wednesday.
Why? Because we’re giving Thursdays a new job: your Prompt of the Week. These quick, actionable prompts help you create smarter content, faster—with tools you already use, like ChatGPT, Canva, and Meta Ads.
Same helpful insights, just spaced out to make your week smoother—and your marketing sharper.
A Quick Note from Me 💬
Hey—you made it to the end, and I’m so glad you did. I put this guide together with you in mind: the host who’s juggling a lot, staying curious, and trying to do things just a little smarter this season.
If something here made your day easier—or sparked a new idea—I’d love to hear about it. Just hit reply. I read every note.
Talk soon,
—Kay, Smart Pineapple 🍍