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Airbnb co-hosting in Sicily, by a native English speaker

The most anglophone foreign inbox of the six Italian markets here, answered within the hour and at one in the morning. Your CIN, your listing, your payouts and your cleaner stay yours.

Tell me about your property

This is co-hosting, not property management

This is co-hosting, and it is not property management. I answer your guests — every message, within the hour, around the clock — and I coordinate with your cleaner and your key-holder. The pricing, the payouts, the CIN, the cleaning and anything physical stay with you. Refunds, safety, damage and anything legal reach you the same hour, with a recommendation attached, and you decide. I never negotiate your price or terms, never decide whether a booking goes ahead, never receive a guest payment, and never handle a guest's identity document. I don't advertise or promote your property anywhere: marketing the listing stays yours and Airbnb's.

years hosting
5 years hosting
years as a Superhost
4 years as a Superhost
guest reviews
97 guest reviews
guest rating
4.9 guest rating

Runs a family rental in the Denver area from Porto since 2021

Your license, your listing, your money — we handle the conversation

Looking for Airbnb management in Sicily? What I do is narrower than that — the guest side only — and of the six Italian markets on this site, this is the one where an English-speaking inbox is closest to the whole story.

Who books here

In 2025, residents of the United States accounted for 6.1% of all overnight stays in tourist accommodation in Sicily and residents of the United Kingdom 5.1%, behind Germany at 8.3% and France at 7.0%. That ranks the United States third among foreign markets and the United Kingdom fourth, together 11.2% of every night spent in the region. Measured against foreign nights alone, the two are 20.0% — the strongest anglophone mix of the six markets on this site. The series counts all tourist accommodation, hotels included, not short lets alone.

Foreign residents were 56.0% of all Sicilian overnight stays in 2025, almost exactly the Italian average of 56.3%. Add the money: American and British travelers are 8.6% of Italian overnight stays but 21.0% of what foreign travelers spend. One in five of your foreign guest-nights, and a bigger share of the revenue, is a conversation in my first language.

What the calendar does to your inbox

Sicily has the longest usable season of the six. June to September took 58.7% of all overnight stays in the region in 2025, but September was still 13.1% and October 9.0%. April to October covered 85.2%, leaving 14.8% for November to March — a real off-season rather than a dead one. Shoulder guests are the ones who ask the most questions before booking.

No CIN or structure count for Sicily can be quoted from the published register: the regional figure is not attributable, and I will not guess one. What is measurable is that holiday dwellings took 35.4% of all Sicilian overnight stays in 2025, on the basis ISTAT widened that year — a level, not growth.

What they actually ask

Judgement, not data: in my experience, and from what hosts here answer most, it is this list. Which airport — Catania, Palermo, Trapani, Comiso — and whether a hire car is needed, which it usually is. Parking, and whether the street outside is legal and safe overnight. The beach: distance, free or lido, and whether the sea is swimmable at their dates. Air conditioning, and whether it runs at night. Etna, Taormina and the boat trips: how far, how to book, is it worth it. And the late arrival off a delayed flight, and how the keys work at one in the morning.

What I do — and what stays with you

I answer your guests: inquiries before they go cold, pre-arrival and in-stay questions, the review reply afterward. Every message gets a reply within the hour, around the clock — overnight that may be a first reply saying I am looking into it, with the full answer first thing in the morning. I message your cleaner and your key-holder when a turnover moves.

What stays with you: the listing, the calendar and the pricing; the payouts; the CIN and the Alloggiati Web reporting to the Questura; your cleaner, your key-holder and every physical job. The rules on identifying guests in person have been in flux since late 2024, so arrivals stay with you and your key-holder, confirmed with your commercialista or lawyer. Refunds, safety, damage and legal reach you the same hour with a recommendation attached.

Your license, your listing, your money — we handle the conversation.

What American and British bookers expect

Speed first: a reply in minutes reads as normal, silence overnight reads as a problem — and with American guests, the message often lands while Sicily is asleep. Volume second: ten messages before check-in is unremarkable for a US family. Warmth third: first names, over-explanation, “no problem at all”, where a short, correct, formal answer reads as cold. Illustrative examples, off my own listing; a plus I bring, not a verdict on anyone else.

Why me

I have run my own short-term rental for five years, held Superhost status for four of them, and the listing carries 97 guest reviews at an overall rating of 4.9. I run it remotely from Porto, and have done since I moved to Portugal in 2021. The two in the morning message is the one I have been answering for years.

If your place is in Sicily and the messages are the part you dread, tell me below.

Good to know

Do you speak Italian?
Not fluently, and I would rather be straight about it. Guest conversations happen in English and, where a guest writes in Italian, German or French, I draft the reply in their language. Our own conversations happen in English, and anything you send me in Italian I read in written translation. Anything needing real legal or commercial fluency in Italian goes back to you.
My guests land at midnight from a delayed flight. Can you handle that?
The message, yes — that is precisely the hour this exists for. The arrival itself is your key-holder's, and Italy's rules on identifying guests in person have been moving since late 2024, so how someone gets in is settled between you and your lawyer, not by me.
What changes on my Airbnb account?
You add me as a co-host and choose the permissions, which gives me the message inbox and a view of the calendar. The listing stays in your name, the CIN stays in your name, the payouts stay in your account, the pricing stays yours, and you can remove my access whenever you want.
Do you replace my cleaner or my key-holder?
No. They are the people who can actually be at the apartment, and they stay yours. I message them to move a turnover, pass on an arrival time or flag something a guest has reported, and that is the whole of my involvement in the physical side.
Which platforms do you cover?
Airbnb first, because co-host access there is built for exactly this. Where you also list on Vrbo or Booking.com I can take those conversations too, but the mechanics differ per platform, so we agree that when we talk.
What happens when a guest asks for a refund?
It reaches you the same hour, with what I would do and why. Money is never my decision. Once you have decided, I write the reply immediately, in a register that keeps the conversation calm and protects the review.
I live in Palermo. I live in Toronto. Which of us is this for?
Both. If you live away, the worry is silence while nobody is watching the inbox. If you live in the same city, the worry is that a stay which is going perfectly still owns your evenings. Same fix, and anything needing a decision reaches you within the hour with a recommendation attached.
What does it cost?
I quote per property, once I have seen the listing and understood the message volume it really generates. A one-bedroom in Ortigia that turns over every two nights and a villa near Taormina let by the week are different jobs, so a single published number would be wrong for one of us.

Tell me about your property

A few details is enough to start. I read every message myself and reply with what I would actually do on your listing — no obligation, no pitch deck.

Where is it listed?

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