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Airbnb pledges pre-IPO commitment to stakeholders
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Airbnb has announced its intention to publish annual reports for its stakeholders in addition to financial reports, after stating its commitment to creating positive good as part of its mission to be a successful business. These will serve as an internal judgement to how Airbnb identifies what it believes to be its three major […]
Airbnb guests and revenue in Maine triples in the past four years
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Over a half-million guests stayed overnight in homes and apartments booked through Airbnb in 2019, with hosts earning around $91 million last year – an all-time high. As Airbnb rentals rocket in Maine, communities such as Portland and South Portland have enacted rules that limit the number of short-term rental units, as well as […]
South Florida Airbnb hosts warned to register homes before Super Bowl
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Those looking to cash in on the thousands of visitors for Super Bowl LIV could face fines if properties do not have the required licence. According to the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, a vacation rental that is “a whole unit, condo, apartment or dwelling, is required to have a licence with the […]
Airbnb removes neo-Nazi group’s accounts from platform
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Airbnb has announced that it has removed more than 60 accounts associated with the online neo-Nazi group Iron March in a purge of white supremacists from its platform, according to the Daily Mail. The short-term rental platform made the response after the identities of hundreds of Iron March users were leaked over the Internet […]
Airbnb to be the first target of digital tax regulations from Poland
Reading Time: 2 minutesPoland: Tadeuz Koscinski, the newly instated Polish finance minister, announced today plans to implement tax on Airbnb operators in Poland. The latest in plans by European leaders to understand and regulate Airbnb, FT reports that Koscinski seeks to tax not only operators, but the company itself. “If we’re going to be making sure that anyone […]
Airbnb establishes partnership with UBC
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Airbnb has signed a contract with American joinery and carpentry union, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America [UBC]. The deal lays a promise that Airbnb will use labour from the UBC in any of its major future investment projects. This is the third partnership between Airbnb and labour unions- the other two […]
Airbnb signs first automatic tax collection partnership in Lithuania
Reading Time: 2 minutesLithuania: In the first of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe, Airbnb has signed its first partnership to collect tourist taxes in Vilnius in Lithuania. As of 1 February, Airbnb will automatically collect tourism levies due per night and per person when travellers book stays in the Lithuanian capital, before transfering it directly to […]
Brighton and Hove City Council demands Airbnb changes
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Brighton and Hove City Council has demanded a shift in Airbnb business practices within the city. The Argus reports that the council has asked for both a register of reliable hosts, in order to combat the issue of disorderly tenants within the city, as well as asking that Airbnb hosts begin paying business tax […]
Airbnb names cheapest ten European cities for city breaks
Reading Time: 2 minutesWorldwide: Airbnb has compiled a list of the cheapest ten cities to stay in on city breaks with the help of company internal data. With Christmas and New Year out of the way, travellers already have their eye on short, affordable city breaks in Europe that will not break the bank and the list is […]
Boston closes possible short-term rental property loophole
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: The city of Boston, which introduced legislation against short-term rentals last year, closed a possible loophole earlier this week. The city’s zoning commission rejected the efforts of property investors in 11 city neighbourhoods to rebrand apartment clusters as “executive suites”. The current law requires that companies apply for permits from the zoning board if […]