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hotels/hostels?
Airbnb turns potential living space into hotel space and thereby helps driving up housing prices. The whole concept is inherently problematic.
If you are looking for a permanent place somewhere in Europe, it's very difficult to quickly find monthly or weekly rentals with the appropriate monthly or weekly discount you will find on Airbnb. I don't discount it's négatives, but with the paperwork burden to find a medium or long term place in many areas in Europe Airbnb does the best job of cutting through all of that and getting you a place now
Without airbnb more hotels would be built instead of apartment buildings. The tourists will get a place to sleep eventually, you just have to decide whether it's in an apartment or a hotel. That will determine future construction projects
hotels are controlled by laws and zoning, airbnb gets around that and turns planned living space into hotel space.
This is not a good thing, zoning laws often lead to higher rents because they constrain construction. They also lead to having to drive everywhere because your house is too far from anything that's not another house
This varies from place to place. This is handled really badly in some places and much better in others.
You can't just build a hotel in a residential area, that usually goes against zoning laws which Airbnb circumvents
Yeah, that's why we should have mixed use zoning. I stayed in a hotel in a residential area in Seoul, it was great. There's convenience stores everywhere and little restaurants and cafes next to residential houses
Great point. Hostels seem very fun.
Not quite hotel space as I have yet to find a hotel that can accommodate several families traveling together with a shared space, including a fully stocked kitchen, washer and dryer, parking, etc. There's definitely a demand for something like this that isn't filled in any other way.
Just rent a villa, they offer those in a lot of places
In Germany it's called "Ferienwohnung" where you can rent a whole house if you need it. This is going for decades before AirBNB, I'm sure there's something comparable in other countries.
Appartment hotels maybe?