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Airbnb in £500k investment pledge to boost West Midlands tourism
Reading Time: 3 minutesUK: Airbnb has launched The Airbnb Birmingham 2022 Legacy Pledge – a £500,000 investment designed to boost tourism in the West Midlands.
Flexible living takes centre stage at Urban Living Festival
Reading Time: 4 minutesUK: More than 240 urban innovators and investors at the cutting edge of global hospitality and real estate attended this week’s Urban Living Festival [ULF] at East Wintergarden in London’s Canary Wharf.
Second homeowners face letting crackdown in the UK
Reading Time: 3 minutesUK: Second homeowners in the UK face potential restrictions on renting out their properties as holiday lets to tourists, under plans being drawn up by Housing Secretary Michael Gove.
Airbnb calls on Irish government to establish landlord register
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIreland: Airbnb has called for government reforms to letting laws so it can ban non-registered property owners from its platform.
Airbnb’s Amanda Cupples to speak at Urban Living Festival
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Amanda Cupples, GM UK & Northern Europe at Airbnb, has been announced as a headline speaker at the upcoming 2022 Urban Living Festival: stay-live-work on 6-7 July 2022.
Airbnb to be official hosting provider for 2022 Commonwealth Games
Reading Time: 3 minutesUK: Airbnb has signed a landmark agreement with the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, to become the official hosting provider for the multi-sport event.
Airbnb plans NYE crackdown on parties
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Airbnb has announced that it is planning a crackdown on New Year’s Eve parties to protect hosts and minimise neighbourhood disruption around the world. The plan is underpinned by a ban on one-night NYE bookings in entire home listings for guests without a history of positive reviews. Airbnb first piloted the policies and restrictions […]
Airbnb offers “welcome bonus” for COP26 hosts in Glasgow
Reading Time: 3 minutesUK: Ahead of November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, Airbnb is offering a financial incentive to hosts in Glasgow to welcome guests and increase the accommodation capacity for the global event. It comes in response to concerns of a shortage of accommodation during COP26, with around 30,000 government representatives, media and […]
Airbnb unveils trending British seaside destinations in 2021
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Airbnb has revealed the top ten trending British seaside destinations in the UK, as schools begin to break up for the summer. Sandgate in Kent and Ingoldmells in Lincolnshire topped the list after seeing the biggest rise in Brits searching for homes on the platform, whether it is families, friends or solo travellers. British […]
Airbnb creates UK Trust and Safety Alliance
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: In what has been called a “European first”, Airbnb has launched the UK Trust and Safety Alliance, a network of expert organisations that will work closely with the home-sharing platform in the UK and provide information and guidance to hosts and the Airbnb community. Founding members of the Trust and Safety Alliance include the […]