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Sounds like an easy solution. Raze all the vacant hotels that surely have been put under by the lack of demand as it shifts to Airbnb and make those apartments
by drstewart 8y ago
Sounds like an easy solution. Raze all the vacant hotels that surely have been put under by the lack of demand as it shifts to Airbnb and make those apartments you can buy instead.
- pjc50 8y agoThe hotels usually remain full. There's a huge pent-up demand for tourism.
- drstewart 8y agoNow you get it. Airbnb is providing a service there's a huge demand and need for, not some evil provider that's forcing something down people's throats.
- pjc50 8y agoThe fact that there's a huge demand is irrelevant to it being forced on non users of the service. I.e. neighbors.
- simias 8y agoYou're being obtuse. It's simply a case of a tragedy of the commons, the commons in this case being available real-estate. Paris is already one of the densest cities in the world, if you add more tourist lodgings you have to push somebody else out. Besides you make it sound like enabling more tourism is unambiguously a good thing. It's true that it has positive side-effects (mostly on the economy) but it also leads to degradation, overcrowding and, as we were discussing, an explosion of the cost of life for the locals. I often hear tourists complaining that they don't get an "authentic" experience abroad, how could they when the place they visit have been deserted by the locals?