The Independent – Rude guests, broken wi-fi and a lot of floor scrubbing – this is what it’s really like to be an Airbnb host

April 30, 2017

The secretary general of the UN World Tourism Organisation (I know, me neither) has news for hotels. Shut up about Airbnb: the sharing economy is here to stay. The hotel industry “should realize that it is not going to go away,” Taleb Rifai said at a Tourism Global Summit this week that “instead of weeping and moaning and yawning and saying ‘no no no, we don’t want it’, [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][the industry] must find ways of coming to terms with this phenomenon.”…

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