And for Airbnb, the rates over the four-day period this month are expected to be up 23 percent over one week earlier, the company says. Over the last four years, the daily hotel rate during Comic-Con is between 31 percent and 37 percent higher than the previous weekend in July, the STR numbers show. For nights when hotel occupancy is over 95 percent, the average daily rate premium still seems to be what it was before the advent of Airbnb, around 30 percent.” “The added Airbnb supply does not seem to have a discernible impact on pricing within the local hotel community.

“If Airbnb has a large impact on pricing, we’re not finding that in our data,” said Jan Freitag, senior vice president with STR, formerly Smith Travel Research. Hotel rates during the pop culture extravaganza have increased 14 percent between 20, according to STR, a research firm that tracks hotel performance throughout the country. That discount, though, doesn’t seem to be hobbling the pricing powers of Comic-Con.

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