These fees are in stark contrast to charges levied by other online travel agents which can charge at the travel agents' discretion and can be as high as 30%.
Quote from Airbnb, in an article on PhocusWire this week.
Airbnb officially opens up platform to hotel distribution
Airbnb was generally seen through the prism of how its extraordinary and (genuinely) disruptive growth was having an impact on accommodation providers.
A favourite question of journalists and analysts was to ask hoteliers to what degree the private accommodation-sharing giant was damaging them.
The answer, inevitably, was something usually in the range of "not at all" to "perhaps longer stays are affected", etc.
Those types of questions will not go away any time soon - but the landscape has changed dramatically almost overnight.
Airbnb's information sheet for hoteliers that are (it now hopes) weighing up whether to list on the site included the claim above. This is perhaps the most important part of the entire announcement.
The broadening out of the platform (it has since emerged that it actually began quietly last summer) to allow accommodation types of all shapes and sizes to list alongside host-run properties shows that Airbnb is considering itself a challenger to the dominance of online travel agencies such as Booking.com and Expedia.
The question now will be how many accommodation providers will decide to take a chance on Airbnb.
The irony in all this is that, despite the grunts and groans from industry associations over the years about Airbnb's adherence (or not) to regulations, listing on the site might end up being a cheaper distribution channel for hotels than through OTAs.
In a single move, Airbnb has put itself in the heart of the wider accommodation booking ecosystem - something that could, over time, put some pressure on the powerful brands that seemingly dominate the sector at present.
Until now, Expedia and Booking.com have not faced an adversary like they might do with Airbnb - one which has a unique brand proposition (it clearly doesn't spend $4 billion a year on digital marketing) and operates in an entirely different way to the status quo.