Holiday with the Locals, cheaper and more personal than in a Hotel. With this simple idea, the founders of Airbnb came to the rescue, the travel industry epochal. A Snapshot.
With an air mattress it started. And, in 2007, were fully booked due to a conference in San Fransisco again the Hotels of the city. Three students spontaneously came to the idea of air mattresses-sleeps with Breakfast offer: “AirBed and Breakfast”
The guests were rent, and the business idea was born: Why a room or the whole flat of their own, for little money, casually, to people who want to come for a few days somewhere. You just had to bring even the host and the guest together. So Nathan Blecharzcyk, Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia created a Website and presented their idea to the world: That was on 11. August 2008. 16 properties were on offer.
Find accommodations on Airbnb
In 2009, the Portal received the name it knows today, every holidaymakers and business travellers around the world: Airbnb. 300 million guests have now booked an Overnight stay via the Sharing platform, on the in 200 countries with five million different types of accommodation are offered. Airbnb today has a market value of 31 million US dollars (as of 2017).
Simple idea, big success – Airbnb gives private apartments around the globe
The Numbers speak a clear language, tourists love Airbnb. You will find on the platform of accommodations for every taste and budget – and with this certain Touch of Individiual behaviour that Hotels can’t offer. Airbnb now teaches around the world, more Nights than the five largest hotel chains. The Hotels are pissed. The Sharing platform path takes you to customer, you reap rich gains and bypass the tax requirements that apply to accommodation establishments. But the really big Trouble for Airbnb comes from a different corner.
With the success come the problems
In cities where Airbnb operates particularly successfully, is the criticism of the loudest Paris, London, Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona, Berlin or Amsterdam. All these destinations have one thing in common, they are suffering under the mass onslaught of tourists. And all agree that Airbnb is exacerbating the tense Situation. The conversion of residential space in apartments, driving rents in the height, so the criticism. In Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca it came to citizens ‘ protests.
Nathan Underwood Blecharczyk, co-founder of Airbnb and a multi-millionaire
Owners bring it anywhere to rent Apartments by the day to tourists than to rent to Orstansässige permanently. The hard to find affordable housing and are driven out of their cities. In this way, the Portal destroy the original charm of that district, which advertises it – complain to the cities. Airbnb itself will look different, as the company’s founder, Nathan Blecharczyk at this year’s International tourism exchange (ITB) compared to the “Stern” magazine, reiterated that it could even be part of the solution. “75 percent of our properties are already outside the Hotel-districts, they are distributed over the city, of which the local economy benefits. There the guests go to Restaurants and cafes that are just around the corner and buy one in stores in your neighborhood.”
These positive effects are undeniable, but they make the housing situation better. Local authorities see themselves forced to Act.
Airbnb in the terminal
Barcelona as one of the most visited cities in Europe, drastic measures. In 2016, the municipality of Airbnb was threatened with a penalty of 600,000 euros, because it is allowed on its platform ads for apartments without a license. About a year legal dispute between Airbnb and the city dragged on. In 2017, it was agreed that Airbnb came up with a blue eye, the Portal has assured, that all the apartments would be removed without a license from the platform.
An activist in Barcelona, wearing a T-Shirt with the inscription “tourism kills our district”
Like Barcelona, other cities fight back against Airbnb and other Sharing platforms, the price structure of your apartment vortices market. In Palma de Mallcorca the rental of all the apartments in the entire city since the 1 is now. July 2018 is prohibited. In the last five years, the Rent had risen to half. Elsewhere, Airbnb landlords have been assigned restrictions. For example, in Paris, where in the Central downtown area only 120 days in the year, entire housing districts may be leased, in Amsterdam only to a maximum of 30 days in the year.
Since 1. August 2018 and is also regulated in Berlin, the so-called misuse of the living space more. Who wants to offer a whole apartment, the report of the city and the rental approved. The host will then receive a registration number that you must specify in their advertisements. Checks should be easier. For travellers, this also has an advantage: you can quickly determine whether a property is legal or illegal rents.
EU sets out to thumb screws
Also, the EU is to become Airbnb’s attention. You requested that in July 2018, the rental portal, to make clear whether it was a private or professional provider. Because for both categories each have different consumer rules apply. In addition, the consumer authorities require a number of Changes in the terms and conditions with a view to Litigation and compensation issues.
Protest on Mallorca: On the poster The city for the residents, “not for visitors”
“Success can not be any excuse to not stick to EU rules on consumer protection.” was a clear EU consumers Commissioner Vera Jourova. The customer should be able to easily understand what services they would have to pay as much. Need fair rules in the event of cancellation by the owner of a vacation home are also. “I expect that Airbnb presents rapidly with the right solutions,” said Jourova. Airbnb has until the end of August time, proposals for Amendment.
Airbnb continue on flight
The pressure on Airbnb to grow internationally and leads to the Airbnb improvements. In cities such as San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, or Vancouver, there are now interfaces with the city administrations. Or, the platform locks provider, the rent unregistered – as recently in Japan, or works together with municipalities and automatically feeds a bed tax as it is in Vienna or Dortmund. Because not every Airbnb landlord declared his income from renting and leasing – the local authorities complain that taxpayers ‘ money is to be missed. In Berlin and other länder financial authorities now want to check whether the landlords on AirBnB and other websites generated income is also taxed properly. The ugly word “tax evasion” is in the room.
Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky at the presentation of the “Airbnb Plus” in February of 2018 in San Fransisco
Airbnb, meanwhile, is left and continues to expand his Empire further. With its luxury Offensive, “Airbnb Plus” the Portal offers accommodation with Standards, which suit luxury hotels, but for a much cheaper price. And extensive travel App will give it To: the Berlin daily mirror Chris Lehane, the chief lobbyist for Airbnb said the company aim to 2028, a billion trips a year on Airbnb. The all-Round travel App that will leaves no question as to the destination to be answered.
In 2017, the Portal “discoveries was already” at the Start. Interested buyers can book from street food tours, sailing trips, concerts or Graffiti courses, everything at the resort fun. With the data collected, the users are recommended to re-new that’s right for you goals. People around the world can apply to be a host for discovery.