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Airbnb’s Catherine Powell on safety, AI and sustainable tourism
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWorldwide: Catherine Powell, the first-ever global head of hosting at Airbnb, speaks to STRz about enhancing safety and security on the Airbnb platform, prioritising sustainable and responsible tourism, and how AI and machine learning will create a more personalised booking search experience from now on.
Vrbo launches technology to prevent party house bookings
Reading Time: 3 minutesUS: Expedia Group vacation rental brand Vrbo is rolling out new unauthorised event prevention technology that identifies potentially disruptive parties before they take place.
Parties are over on Airbnb as company enforces permanent ban
Reading Time: 3 minutesWorldwide: Airbnb will make its ban on parties at its listings a permanent policy after seeing a steep drop in unauthorised gatherings since implementing temporary restrictions in 2020.
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 and Vrbo partner to tackle party houses
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Airbnb has teamed up with Expedia Group’s Vrbo to take care of “disruptive party houses” by developing the Community Integrity Program. In an industry collaboration, Airbnb and Vrbo will develop the Community Integrity Program. Working alongside a third-party intermediary, the two companies will build a process that “identifies properties that have been permanently removed from […]
Airbnb blocks more than 800 UK listings flouting rules
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Airbnb has announced that it has removed or suspended more than 800 listings in the UK following a crackdown on so-called “party houses”. According to the company, the number includes listings that have received complaints or violated policies on parties and unauthorised events, which are “explicitly” banned on Airbnb. In a further commitment to […]
Airbnb removes 50 Los Angeles listings from its platform
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Airbnb has confirmed it has suspended or removed more than 50 property listings based in Los Angeles County from its platform with immediate effect, a week after issuing a global ban on parties in its properties and capping guests that can occupy one at 16 people. The affected properties have been sanctioned for […]
Airbnb clamps down on u-25 whole house rentals in United States
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: In an attempt to further crack down on party houses, Airbnb has expanded the reaches of a policy limiting what under-25s can book in the United States, when it comes to whole house rentals. Under the new policy, Americans under the age of 25 with poor host reviews cannot book full properties in their […]
Airbnb bans ‘party houses’ following fatal Halloween shootings
Reading Time: 3 minutesUS: Airbnb is banning ‘party houses’ following a fatal shooting incident at a Halloween party at a California property rented through the platform, according to tweets by chief executive Brian Chesky. Chesky posted a series of tweets on Saturday condemning the incident and said the rental platform would go ahead with plans to enhance manual […]
Residents call for government action on Bath “party houses”
Reading Time: 3 minutesUK: Residents in the city of Bath in South West England are calling for the government to introduce new rules to stop the spread of ‘party houses’ appearing in quiet neighbourhoods in the city. In a report published in The Times, properties that are being rented out for such purposes are a growing trend in […]