Tampa Bay Times – Bed and breakfast owners closing their doors blame Airbnb, local government
April 21, 2017 ST. PETERSBURG — Mornings at the Dickens House revolve around a large, tiger oak table. Guests at the St. Petersburg bed and breakfast plop down around it each morning to nibble on fresh fruit and pastries before innkeeper Ed Caldwell sets down a plate of egg-white frittata or blueberry pancakes. He had […]
BuzzFeed News – Airbnb Criticised For Taking Nearly Two Weeks To Remove “Fraudulent” Account
April 23, 2017 Airbnb has been criticised by the consumer group Which? after it took nearly two weeks to remove a fake account that was deliberately set up to look fraudulent. Which? created a series of fake profiles across Airbnb, Homeaway, and Tripadvisor’s Holiday Lettings in order to investigate “how easy” it would be for […]
Miami Herald – When Airbnb goes wrong: A Miami story
April 21, 2017 Jose Gonzalez was walking his two sons to his car early one morning to drive them to school when he glanced across the street and had to do a double-take. “It’s 7 in the morning and some guy is changing, opening the back of the trunk of his car, taking out his […]
Los Angeles Times (Opinion) – Don’t buy Airbnb’s claim that L.A. would lose millions under new regulations
April 21, 2017 To the editor: On behalf of the Los Angeles hotels that help generate more that $200 million annually for the city in Transient Occupancy Taxes (TOT) and are members of the California Hotel & Lodging Assn., we are flummoxed by the lack of honest math regarding short-term rentals and their impact on […]
ABC Local News 10 – Airbnb’s relationship with VaCuba fails Cubans running ‘casa particulares’
April 20, 2017 HAVANA – Stefano Marzoli left his Italy for Cuba about four years ago. He runs one of the casa particulares in Havana that are struggling with Airbnb’s lack of payment. The digital platform, Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia founded in San Francisco about nine years ago, started to connect Cubans with foreigners […]
NL Times – AMSTERDAMMER FINED €20,500 FOR RENTING SMALL ROOM TO SIX FRENCH TOURISTS ON AIRBNB
April 20, 2017 Three French couples were very disappointed when the arrived in Amsterdam for Easter weekend to find that their 1,000 euro per night Airbnb listing consisted of one tiny room with only one real bed and two air mattresses. The renter was fined 20,500 euros on Wednesday for breaking Amsterdam’s Airbnb rules, Het […]
CBC News – Richmond to crack down on short-term rentals by end April
April 20, 2017 Richmond is one step closer to cracking down on short term rentals like Airbnb. By the end of the month, residents won’t be allowed to rent out an entire dwelling for 30 days or less and short term rentals of suites, coach houses or laneway houses won’t be allowed. Only a single […]
Herald Sun – Airbnb guest surprised by SWAT team looking for fugitive
April 20, 2017 AN AIRBNB guest found himself swept up in a manhunt when the LAPD came knocking at his short term rental apartment. New Yorker Yossi Rosenberg, who paid $US800 to stay at the property — which had “overwhelmingly” positive reviews — got a fright when a SWAT team showed up on Wednesday. And […]
LA Times – Are Newport’s short-term rentals following the rules? City hires a monitor to find out
April 19, 2017 Newport Beach has partnered with a company to help enforce short-term rental regulations by comparing addresses in the city’s database of permitted hosts with listings on popular online services such as Airbnb. The city has contracted with San Francisco-based Host Compliance to comb 22 websites that could reveal who’s advertising their homes […]
Chicago Business Journal – Business travelers turning to home-sharing, but not all companies are on board
April 19, 2017 More than one-third of business travelers believe their companies allow them to stay in home-sharing properties, but not nearly that many businesses explicitly allow their employees traveling for work to stay in such lodgings, according to a new survey from the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA)… Source