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Short-term rentals in Lugano

Airbnb leads local supply with 66% of tracked listings. Happy.Rentals is the largest professional operator in Lugano, with 228 local listings.

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Tracked listings
1,957
Market rank
#10 / 78
National share
2.8%
Professional operators
5

Airbnb vs Booking.com in Lugano

In Lugano, Airbnb leads with 1,285 tracked listings (66%), versus 672 on Booking.com (34%).

Where the listings are in Lugano

The dots are a representative sample of tracked short-term rentals — Airbnb in red and Booking.com in blue. Zoom and pan to explore the market, or open the full report for filters, operator overlays, and the listing-level view.

Airbnb Booking.com 250 sampled locations from 1,957 tracked listings — open the full interactive report

Market structure in Lugano

34% of Lugano's tracked listings (675 of 1,957) are run by operators with 26 or more listings, above the median of 78 tracked markets across Switzerland (19%). Booking.com supply is more professionalised than Airbnb's: 44% of Booking.com listings sit with operators of that size, against 29% on Airbnb. The 5 indexed professional operators run 339 local listings between them, and the three largest — Happy.Rentals, Bansky BnB and Your.Rentals — account for 98% of that.

Professional share
34%
Median market
19%
Single-listing hosts
31%

Listings by operator portfolio size

Tracked listings grouped by how many properties their operator runs — from single hosts to 26+ professionals.

  • Single listing 599
  • 2–5 listings 408
  • 6–25 listings 275
  • 26+ (professional) 675

Listings by property type

Apartments & flats make up 69% of Lugano's classified listings, followed by Houses, cottages & holiday homes (16%).

  • Apartments & flats 1,352
  • Houses, cottages & holiday homes 303
  • Hotels & hostels 104
  • Private & shared rooms 101
  • B&Bs & guest houses 86
  • Unique & outdoor 8
  • Other 3

Largest operators in Lugano

Ranked by local tracked listings across Airbnb and Booking.com. Scores and portfolio review totals are aggregated across each operator's tracked Switzerland listings. Together, the table and directory cover every professional operator we track in this market.

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Largest operators in Lugano, ranked by local tracked listings.
# Operator Listings Airbnb score Booking.com score Portfolio reviews
1 Happy.Rentals 228 4.48 / 5 7.7 / 10 5,901
2 Bansky BnB 73 4.59 / 5 8.1 / 10 4,020
3 Your.Rentals 32 4.71 / 5 8.5 / 10 3,494
4 Adagio Aparthotel 3 5.00 / 5 8.1 / 10 205,185
5 Herisau Apartments 3 4.62 / 5 8.6 / 10 39,609

All 5 professional operators in Lugano

Local listings

Operators enter the index after reaching 26 listings across Switzerland and count Lugano among their markets. Published profile URLs remain stable across data refreshes. See the full interactive Lugano market report for additional filters and operator comparisons.

How Lugano compares

Lugano ranks 10th of 78 tracked markets in Switzerland, with 2.8% of tracked supply in this coverage. Markets of similar size:

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Lugano market FAQ

How many short-term rentals are in Lugano?

Lugano has 1,957 tracked short-term rental listings as of August 2026: 1,285 on Airbnb and 672 on Booking.com.

Who is the largest short-term rental operator in Lugano?

The largest professional operator in Lugano is Happy.Rentals, with 228 local listings.

How professionalised is the Lugano short-term rental market?

34% of Lugano's tracked listings (675 of 1,957) are run by operators with 26 or more listings, above the median of 78 tracked markets across Switzerland (19%). Booking.com supply is more professionalised than Airbnb's: 44% of Booking.com listings sit with operators of that size, against 29% on Airbnb. The 5 indexed professional operators run 339 local listings between them, and the three largest — Happy.Rentals, Bansky BnB and Your.Rentals — account for 98% of that.

Is Airbnb or Booking.com bigger in Lugano?

In Lugano, Airbnb leads with 1,285 tracked listings (66%), versus 672 on Booking.com (34%).

How many professional operators run listings in Lugano?

5 indexed professional operators have a tracked presence in Lugano. The full roster is listed on this page, and the interactive market report maps every listing.

About this data

Figures come from myDataValue's cross-platform market snapshot of 1,957 public short-term rental listings in Lugano, matching Airbnb and Booking.com supply to the operators who run it. Operators enter the index after reaching 26 listings on Airbnb or Booking.com across Switzerland. Snapshot dates: Airbnb , Booking.com .

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