Think they are funded by the hotel industry?
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Yep.
Looking for touts, grasses, call’em what you want, to inform on STR’s. Unpleasant.
JF
I expect disgruntled guests to be prime suspects. Book an airbnb in a place with regs like NYC, get your free stay, make your false claim, get turned down, then threaten to out the host to the city.
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It sure looks like hotel industry propaganda! Lots of exclamation points! Headlines about horrendous “price gouging” in Boston during graduation time, and for the Kentucky Derby, as if hotels didn’t raise rates during events or when rooms are scarce.
Of course those same hotels that won’t pay their maids a living wage and fight against unionization want to be allies with community organizers concerned about “housing being taken off the market”, and never want to take about THEIR overpriced rooms and price gouging.
If Air stopped fighting in favor of the multi-listing ripoffs and went back to actually supporting those of us hosting in our own homes maybe these Astroturf whiners wouldn’t have as much to whine about.
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I don’t host in my own home; I have one Airbnb unit in our LTR building. I take offense to those that think it should be illegal if it’s not in your own home. My husband and I are anything but “greedy landlords”.
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This propaganda filled site reminds me of the crap I dealt with when fighting breed specific legislation in this area a number of years ago.
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I clicked on the about us and saw a bunch of organizations I’ve never heard of including a hotel lobbying group.
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Granted look to the source, but I don’t think this bunch is spinning any more than Airbnb does in its city campaigns when regulation is in play. In NYC and SF, the hotel workers unions and the hotels are interesting bedfellows on this topic.
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From the about page:
AirbnbWATCH is a project of American Family Voices, bringing together a collection of organizations dedicated to a common goal: Protect communities and travelers by exposing commercial operators who use sites like Airbnb to run illegal hotels in residential properties under the radar and by making sure all hotel businesses play by the same rules.
My guess is it is the marriott and hilton crowd.
RR
Yep I plan on continuing the practice of “price gouging”, just like everywhere else that has low inventory where big events happen and every other business in the travel industry.
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Sigh … anyone else getting fed up of feeling unloved …
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Well… our guests appear to love us, most of the time.
JF
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