Propel Centre for Population Health Impact, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Tob Control. 2018 Jan;27(1):112-116. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2016-053315. Epub 2017 Feb 20.
Airbnb is a web-based peer-to-peer (P2P) service that enables potential hosts and guests to broker accommodations in private homes as an alternative to traditional hotels. The hospitality sector has increasingly gone smoke-free over the last decade. This study identified the availability and cost of smoking-permitted accommodations identified on Airbnb.
The study team searched for Airbnb accommodations in 12 Canadian cities across each of Canada's 10 provinces. Searches included availability for a single person for a private room, or double occupancy for an entire home/apartment; searches were for 1-night and 1-week stays.
Cities across Canada, including Regina, Fredericton and Charlottetown, had no smoking-permitted accommodations available for the searches conducted. The proportion of private rooms available for one night that permitted smoking ranged from 2% in Calgary, 4% in Winnipeg and St. John's, 10% in Halifax and Victoria, 18% in Toronto, 45% in Vancouver and 69% in Montréal. The average cost for a private room for one night in Vancouver was $128, while the cost for a private room that permits smoking was $62; however, in other markets prices were more similar.
Across Canada, there is a wide range of smoking-permitted accommodations available through Airbnb. In some markets, smoking-permitted accommodation may be significantly less expensive than smoke-free options. As hotel chains increasingly go smoke-free, it is possible that the marketplace will respond with offerings to fulfil consumer demand. As policy makers consider how to regulate P2P services like Airbnb, public health considerations should be included.
Airbnb 是一个基于网络的点对点 (P2P) 服务，使潜在的房东和房客能够在私人住宅中代理住宿，作为传统酒店的替代选择。在过去的十年中，酒店业越来越禁止吸烟。本研究旨在确定在 Airbnb 上提供的允许吸烟的住宿的可用性和成本。
研究团队在加拿大的 10 个省份中的每个省份的 12 个加拿大城市中搜索 Airbnb 住宿。搜索包括单人私人房间或整个家庭/公寓的双人入住的可用性；搜索包括 1 晚和 1 周的住宿。
加拿大各地的城市，包括里贾纳、弗雷德里顿和夏洛特敦，在进行的搜索中都没有提供允许吸烟的住宿。允许吸烟的单人过夜私人房间的比例在卡尔加里为 2%，温尼伯和圣约翰为 4%，哈利法克斯和维多利亚为 10%，多伦多为 18%，温哥华为 45%，蒙特利尔为 69%。在温哥华，一间私人房间一晚上的平均费用为 128 加元，而允许吸烟的私人房间的费用为 62 加元；然而，在其他市场价格更为相似。
在加拿大各地，通过 Airbnb 提供的允许吸烟的住宿种类繁多。在一些市场，允许吸烟的住宿可能比无烟选择便宜得多。随着酒店连锁店越来越多地禁烟，市场可能会做出回应，提供满足消费者需求的产品。政策制定者在考虑如何监管 Airbnb 等 P2P 服务时，应考虑公共卫生因素。
