Sendt: 10/08/19 | 7. oktober 2019
Der er ingen afvisning af, at Airbnb har ændret nøjagtigt, hvordan vi rejser. Det fik folk ud af hotellet/vandrerhjemets kvandary, gav lokalbefolkningen en metode til at tjene penge på deres ekstra rum samt gøre meget mere indkomst såvel som fik turister til forskellige dele af byer, hvilket spreder fordelene ved turisme rundt til en større del af samfundet.
Det var ikke den allerførste forretning, der gjorde dette, men det gjorde denne type rejser omfattende såvel som socialt acceptabel. Begrebet “leje af nogens hjem” ses nu, ikke så underligt eller utrygt, men som en helt typisk metode til at se en destination.
Jeg har været en Airbnb -individ, fordi dets tidlige dage (det begyndte i 2008) såvel som har haft nogle fantastiske oplevelser ved hjælp af tjenesten: det schweiziske par, der lavede såvel som delt middag med mig, de mennesker i Paris, der efterlod mig rød Vin som en velkomstgave, pensionisterne i ture, der satte et lys i min morgenmad croissant til min fødselsdag, parret i NZ, der leverede mig grøntsager fra deres have, såvel som adskillige andre fantastiske oplevelser, hvor jeg fik at tilfredsstille de lokale såvel som Oplev elementer i livet, som jeg måske ikke har ellers. (Jeg har også haft nogle virkelig fantastiske mennesker også. Webstedet fungerer begge veje!)
I løbet af de sidste par år var jeg kommet ud af praksis med at bruge Airbnb, i stedet for at bo hos venner, vandrerhjem eller hoteller på point. Mens jeg var på min bogtur i løbet af sommeren, valgte jeg imidlertid at begynde at bruge tjenesten igen.
Jeg var dog ivrig efter at gøre det.
Fra Overtourism til Holds med flere lister til forretning, der bruger den til at køre hoteller til en generel “uanset” tankegang mod klager, er der en hel del problemer med Airbnb. Det er ikke længere hele ”folk, der lejer deres plads til yderligere penge” -tjeneste, det markedsfører sig selv som.
Jeg har tjekket alle historierne. Jeg har set dataene.
Med over seks millioner lister er Airbnb et af de mest betydningsfulde reservationssteder derude. I det allerførste kvartal af 2019 reserverede det 91 millioner rumnætter. Til sammenligning reserverede Expedia 80,8 millioner.
Men jeg regnede med, at der måtte være nogle perler på stedet.
Og hvilken type rejseprofessionel ville jeg være, hvis jeg ikke forstod Airbnbs nuværende tilstand?
Jeg gik i identificeret til ikke at leje placeringer, der ikke var folks huse – det vil sige enhver form for huslejer, der drives af personer med flere lister eller virksomheder i bolig- eller erhvervsejendom, som har virkningen af stigende huslejer for alle. Mens Airbnb har store problemer, er “kommercialiseringen” af tjenesten den største.
Det voksende antal mennesker, der køber bolig- eller erhvervsejendom, bare for at lease det ud på Airbnb, kører lejekontrakt op til lokalbefolkningen og tvinger dem ud af byen. En nylig forskningsundersøgelse fra Institut d’Conomia de Barcelona viser, at lejekontrakt i Barcelonas mange turistede områder er forbedret med så meget som 7% mellem 2012 såvel som 2016.2
I 2016 (de mange nylige data, jeg måske finder), udgør ægte husdeling, hvor ejeren er til stede under gæstens ophold, mindre end 20% af Airbnbs selskab i USA; 81% af Airbnbs indkomst landsdækkende-4,6 milliarder dollars-kommer fra huslejer i hele enheder, hvor ejeren ikke er til stede.
En gennemse på stedet inde i Airbnb viser, at en høj del af enhederne lejes af personer med flere lister: i Venedig, ud af 8.469 lister, har 68,6% af gælderne flere lister; I Barcelona, ud af 18.302 lister, har 67,1% af gælderne flere lister; Ud over Los Angeles, ud af 44.504 lister, har 57,8% af gælden flere lister.
That doesn’t truly shout the “just a person renting out their additional space” design the business likes to tout.
And I discovered avoiding that a great deal harder than I believed it would be.
Even having spent hours trying to weed those type of houses out, I was fooled in London, DC, as well as Santa Monica: those listings existed solely to be rented out on Airbnb. Those photos that made it seem lived in? Faked. (And the location in London, which was expected to be a space in a guy’s house, was just a room…but in a home for Airbnb guests.)
All that time spent trying to do the best thing…and I still failed!
As this occurred over as well as over again, I believed to myself: Is it time to break up with Airbnb? Was utilizing Airbnb was worth the expense it exacts on residents as well as the time spent trying to discover gems in vain?
Being a accountable traveler is truly essential to me — however not contribute to the issues Airbnb causes.
Airbnb is one of the most significant chauffeurs of overtourism. It has produced a great deal of new lodging for travelers, which in turn contributes to higher tourism numbers.3 On the one hand, that’s good: less expensive lodging = much more tourists = much more revenue. But, when unregulated as well as integrated with the problems highlighted above, enhanced tourism kills the extremely locations we love. It becomes a vicious cycle: much more tourists = much more money = much more properties on Airbnb = fewer regional residents. However, thankfully, as I highlight in this article, a great deal of locales are combating back as well as beginning to restrict the service.
Moreover, the business doesn’t truly take action against holds behave badly. From spying on guests to rejecting last-minute bookings to substandard conditions to fake reviews, complaints against holds go unattended up until they ended up being news stories like this:
Airbnb quietly shut down a top hold amid scathing reviews, however numerous guests were delegated stay with him
Airbnb has a Hidden-Camera Problem
A disturbing video of a fierce Airbnb hold is reigniting fears of racism in the sharing economy
‘Which monkey is gonna stay on the couch?’: Airbnb hold kicks out black guests in racist exchange
British couple spends $11,800 on Airbnb rental in Ibiza that doesn’t exist
As such, I’ve discovered the client service to be truly awful as well as slanted toward hosts. There are a great deal of securities for holds however not guests. If I cancel, I have to pay a fee. If the hold cancels, there’s bit punishment. When speaking about my recent experiences with Airbnb on Twitter as well as Facebook, I discovered I was not alone. A great deal of people have discovered a decline in the high quality of the service lately. They still utilize it, however I was amazed that so numerous people didn’t do so as much as they utilized to. right here are some examples:
There are lots of people who are still having fantastic experiences with the service. As a whole, I still like it. There are some hidden gems, fantastic people, as well as awesome experiences on the website, particularly when you get out of the huge cities. (And, if you stay with staying in people’s spare rooms, you resolve a great deal of the overtourism as well as housing problems the service creates.)
But, provided the social issues it causes, the bad client service, the hassle of handling hosts, the crapshoot in quality, the cleaning as well as other charges that make the service’s costs on par with conventional lodging options, I’d frequently rather just book a routine hostel, hotel, or B&B. Those are simple, easy, as well as straightforward. (And, unlike the Airbnb I had in D.C., will include spaces that really lock!)
I don’t want to contribute to overtourism. I don’t want to cost residents out of their homes. I don’t provide my money to a business that doesn’t want to be a accountable stakeholder. (I haven’t even got to the lengths the business goes to fight against oversight, taxes, as well as regulation.)
And I don’t have all the time to spend discovering a room!
And I’m not the only one having second thoughts. look at this survey I conducted on Twitter about utilizing the service:
Those are not numbers I’d want to see if I was Airbnb. It’s clear, for many of us, the sentiment has shifted away from the service as it’s ended up being much more commercialized.
I’m not completely prepared to provide up on the service rather yet. I still believe you can discover some hidden gems as well as satisfy some fantastic people. When utilized as it was originally meant (staying in someone’s spare room), the service is magic for both holds as well as guests! I do like it as well as it’s not all bad!
And perhaps their upcoming IPO will modification its methods by bringing in new stockholders, lobbyist investors, as well as much more interest (stockholders don’t like unfavorable news stories that lowers their stock price!).
Then again, perhaps it won’t, as well as Airbnb will only get worse as well as I’ll have to stop utilizing it altogether.
Det vil tiden vise.
But I believe the circumstance is poor sufficient where one needs to be wary of the service as well as utilize it with extreme care.
It’s not the exact same as it utilized to be.
Notes:
1: because my team as well as I have been utilizing the site a great deal this year, we’re updating our guide to Airbnb to show modifications in the service. It will be out in a few weeks.
2: You can likewise discover one more research study done by California specify university here.
3: Airbnb is not the prime cause of overtourism, however it certainly contributes greatly; the company’s wish to turn a blind eye to the issue is part of my issue with it.
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