In response, Airbnb just launched a new City Portal that it says will allow governments to more easily identify listings that don’t comply with local regulations, such as unregistered listings. Last year, Los Angeles limited rentals to owner-occupied properties registered with the city, though many illegal units remain on the site, according to the Los Angeles Times. In Europe, cities like Lisbon and Dublin are buying back leases or forcing landlords into long-term rentals in an effort to ensure that when tourism rebounds it won’t overwhelm them again.Įnforcement remains thorny, and Airbnb has been accused of looking the other way when it comes to illegal listings. Last summer, Oahu enacted a law to restrict rentals without permits on the Hawaiian island, enforced with fines. The world can’t change so dramatically like it has and then one of the industries that’s been hit hardest just looks exactly like it did before.”Ĭommunities aim to ensure that. “I don’t think travel will ever, ever look like it did in January. “My speculation is that the world does not quickly snap back to the way it was,” he added. “What I would love is to be able to help spread out travel to as many communities as possible rather than over-concentrating them in any one place.” “It’s kind of redeemed our vision,” he said. Chesky believes travel has been redistributed in a lasting way to places beyond bucket-list capitals. Now that the pandemic is the ultimate overtourism disrupter, Mr. In Airbnb, many travelers found affordable accommodations that allowed them to stay in neighborhoods rather than business centers.
Some listings guarantee a 72-hour vacancy window before check in.īy 2019, the rise of the middle class globally contributed to expanding tourism above the rate of worldwide economic growth for nine years in a row, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council. The procedures recommend 45 minutes of cleaning per room. It instituted new cleaning guidelines and indicated in late August that more than 1 million listings had earned the “ Enhanced Clean” certification, which involves training in new guidelines that detail how and what to wash and sanitize. vacationĪirbnb has touted privacy and guests’ control over their environment - including having your own kitchen in lieu of patronizing restaurants - as safeguards during the pandemic. I’m very optimistic, actually, about the industry.” Lifestyle vs. And so we think demand is going to be strong in the future. They don’t want to be in crowded hotel districts.” But, he said, “they do want to get out of the house. They don’t want to stay in the really big cities as prevalently as they used to. “People want to travel, they just don’t want to get on airplanes,” Mr. Now, as Airbnb prepares to go public, we talked to Airbnb’s co-founder and chief executive, Brian Chesky, along with other industry experts, about some of the company’s challenges and the ways it is changing travel. After laying off a quarter of its work force in the spring, Airbnb jettisoned some new ventures, including forays into transportation and entertainment, and hunkered down to focus on its core strength, lodging, even as its valuation fell from a high of $31 billion to, recently, $18 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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