Direct booking for Hong Kong vacation-rental hosts
Keep the 15.5% that Airbnb takes, win back your repeat guests and grow a direct-booking channel in Hong Kong — with your own branded website.
15,000+
active short-term listings in Hong Kong
HK$950
average nightly rate for rentals
15.5%
taken by Airbnb from every booking
Why go direct in Hong Kong?
Airbnb now takes 15.5% from your payout on most bookings. On an average HK$950 night in Hong Kong, that is a meaningful slice of your rate handed over with every booking.
Booking via a platform
- Airbnb takes 15.5% from your payout
- You don't own the guest relationship or data
- Your listing lives under platform policies
Booking direct
- Guests pay your full rate — no service fee on top
- Zero booking commission for you
- Every guest and stay saved in your own records
- Calendar sync stops double bookings automatically
Your guests pay the same — or less — and you keep the difference. See everything included →
The Hong Kong market
Hong Kong's skyline, harbour views and dense urban apartments support a distinctive short-term-rental market, concentrated in licensed serviced apartments and guesthouse districts. Hosts here pay OTA commissions on premium bookings. A direct-booking website helps Hong Kong operators capture repeat business travel and keep more of every stay.
Short-term-rental rules
Hong Kong requires a hotel or guesthouse licence for stays under 28 days, making short lets of private residences tightly controlled. Rules are strict, so always verify the current local requirements before listing.
Direct booking in Hong Kong, answered
The questions Hong Kong hosts ask us most — about rules, OTA fees and switching to direct bookings.
Short-term stays under 28 days generally require a hotel or guesthouse licence, so letting a private flat short-term is tightly restricted. Verify the current requirements carefully.
Airbnb now takes 15.5% from the host's payout on most bookings. Direct booking returns that margin to compliant operators.
For licensed serviced-apartment operators, Stayolo can build a branded website, connect calendar sync and Stripe, and route repeat corporate guests to a direct booking link.
Around HK$950 per night on average for licensed serviced stays, with harbour-view districts commanding more. Direct booking preserves those rates.
Build your Hong Kong booking website.
Paste your listing, get a branded bookable site, and start keeping the 15.5% Airbnb takes.
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