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What can the world learn from New Zealand and Australia’s Covid-19 responses?
Reading Time: 13 minutesBy Paul Stevens and Miles Hurley, news editor and reporter for ShortTermRentalz Australia / New Zealand: As countries around the world slowly begin to ease their collective lockdowns, one is left to wonder whether Australia and New Zealand hold the key for the rest of the world in responding to the coronavirus pandemic. Back in […]
Vacation rental domestic bookings resurge in New Zealand
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew Zealand: Data from Airbnb suggests that New Zealand has seen a resurgence in short-term rental bookings this month. Between 9-16 May, domestic bookings through the site saw a sharp rise on previous weeks as the country moved into the second week of Level 2 restrictions which are starting to permit some domestic travel. Airbnb […]
Airbnb for Work partners with Orbit World Travel
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Zealand: Airbnb for Work has announced its latest partnership with New Zealand’s largest travel management company, Orbit World Travel. The partnership, which aims to make it easier for Kiwis to travel for work without sacrificing the comforts of home, is supposedly the first of its kind in New Zealand. It will offer Orbit’s 1000+ […]
Sykes Holiday Cottages invests in Bachcare
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew Zealand: UK-based Sykes Holiday Cottages is venturing into the global vacation rental industry by investing in Bachcare, a leading holiday rental firm in New Zealand. The investment will provide Sykes with the opportunity to gain a foothold in the Southern Hemisphere for the first time. Sykes is already the UK’s largest independent holiday rental […]
Christchurch Youth Hub set to provide short-term accommodation for young people
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew Zealand: Homeless young people in Christchurch are set to get more accommodation support, under proposed plans for a $10 million youth hub in the city. If it is approved, the centre will be the first in New Zealand to provide short-term accommodation for those as young as 10. The centre’s potential location has been […]
New Zealand ministers team up with Airbnb to help disaster victims
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew Zealand: New Zealand’s civil defence ministry has linked up with Airbnb to help hosts make their homes available to people who may have been displaced due to a disaster. Airbnb app users will also be able to receive emergency messages regardless of whether they are hosts and guests. The former Australian minister of foreign […]
Christchurch Airbnb operators face paying $1000 bill or getting a permit
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew Zealand: Christchurch homeowners renting entire properties on Airbnb may have to get a permit under updated council short-term rental regulations. On Wednesday, Christchurch’s regulatory performance committee discussed applying a business rate on whole properties used for hosting short-term guests on Airbnb for four or more months a year, or a potential permit system. The […]
Airbnb launches travel accessibility awareness campaign
Reading Time: 2 minutesAustralia / New Zealand: Airbnb has launched an awareness campaign to help encourage Australians and New Zealanders make travel more accessible. Tourism Research Australia revealed an estimated 20 per cent of Australian adults have a disability or long-term health condition and Statistics New Zealand found as many as one in four New Zealanders have a […]
Airbnb hosts lament booking site’s increasing commercialisation
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew Zealand: Airbnb hosts are getting frustrated at how they perceive the vacation ental platform is becoming increasingly commercialised. The booking site has expanded its accommodation range in recent years to list more hotels, motels, eco-lodges and backpacker hotels in addition to its traditional offerings. Airbnb’s Australia and New Zealand country manager Sam McDonagh said […]
Dunedin Airbnb owners sent council letters urging compliance
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNew Zealand: Owners advertising their properties in Dunedin as short-term accommodation on sites such as Airbnb have been sent letters from the City Council. People advertising renting out their properties as short term accommodation on sites such as Airbnb, Bookabach and Bachcare were told that they had responsibilities under the District Plan and Building Act, […]