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Airbnb rentals in New Orleans growing at explosive rate

The number of properties in New Orleans being offered to tourists as short-term rentals has grown at an explosive rate as the practice has spread out from the downriver neighborhoods […]

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Airbnb updates app to focus on personalisation

Airbnb is rolling out an updated app with a range of new features and launching a global brand campaign that will encourage people to “change the way they experience the […]

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Hotels Can Compete for Revenue Against Airbnb

  The Airbnb business model is driven by solid economic fundamentals but hotels can offer value as well Airbnb successfully delivers relevant and quantifiable advantages in saving time, defeating distance […]

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Most San Francisco Airbnb Hosts Operate Illegally

  Even though San Francisco, the hometown of Airbnb, has gone much further than most cities to regulate short-term rental platforms, a new report issued by the city shows most […]

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Airbnb Challenges AH&LA on Tax Issues

  Airbnb this week fired back at a series of American Hotel & Lodging Association reports alleging the company is trying to avoid paying taxes in Los Angeles and other […]

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How Does Airbnb Plan to Beat the Hotels? Taxes

  If this week’s Panama Papers revelations have shown anything, it is that rich people will go to great lengths to hide their wealth from tax collectors. For sharing economy […]

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Sharing Economy is in Asia to stay, but now what?

  THE rapid growth of services like Uber and Airbnb over the last decade make it clear that the “sharing economy” is not a passing trend. These businesses are causing […]

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LA is losing $41 million in taxes from AirBnB

If property owners who rent out homes and apartments on the popular home-sharing site Airbnb were to pay taxes as hotels do, the city of Los Angeles would collect an […]

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Is Airbnb affecting hotels in Sydney?

  Airbnb’s presence in Sydney is growing, but it does not appear to be having a significant impact on the city’s hotel performance, a new report has revealed. STR this […]

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Why Airbnb Won’t Be Great at Selling Hotel Rooms

  Investors have been consumed with the notion that Airbnb is gunning for the online travel agencies and that it will eventually turn from apartment rentals to hotels and steal […]

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