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Hotels are much easier to regulate than if every person becomes a fake entrepreneur by renting out their apartment. Plus zoning rules help to keep an area liva

Hotels are much easier to regulate than if every person becomes a fake entrepreneur by renting out their apartment. Plus zoning rules help to keep an area livable. That's why people usually live in quiet areas and then walk over to the cafes down the road. In Germany, you are required to bring plastic bags so that you can take home your dog's poop. Many tourists don't know that, so ever since a neighbor started offering his spare room on Airbnb, our neighborhood became covered in dogsh. As a result, everyone now treats the AirBnb tourists with contempt, which I guess is also not nice for them. And why do you assume that AirBnb will not go to the top 1%? For entering the short-term-rental market you first and foremost need enough money to buy a nice city center apartment in addition to your actual home. That sounds like Chinese investment bubble to me, not like the struggling middle class.

ivanhoe 7y ago
Just out of curiosity, did you try to talk to your neighbor and ask politely that he informs his guests to clean up after their dogs?
- fxtentacle 7y ago
  Our neighbor is actually one of the better hosts because he still lives in the same house as his guests and talks to them in person. And he is trying hard to limit the bad effects from his guests, but with little success. The dogs are only one of many problems. As another example, in some countries it is still customary to throw your trash onto the main road where it will be burned at night. Most of the issues are due to guests that have a very different culture and do not speak German, French, or English. For newly rich Chinese, the host is understandably at a loss to explain our dos and donts. We also tried picture signs for explaining the dogs issue and there's a government-paid waste bag dispenser nearby. But a large part comes down to laziness and ignorance from the guests. If you never have to pick up your dog poop at home, would you do it while on vacation? Would you still do it even if nobody is watching? The peak of that attitude are UK tourists, notorious for their entitled "I am on vacation so I don't give a sh" approach. UK partying groups overdid it to the point where governments prohibit direct flights to keep them away. So how do you plan to re-educate them for a 3 day trip? In my opinion, the only good option is keeping impersonal tourists out of the residential areas. If they stay with friends and family, they will behave. But if they stay anonymously, no way to make them behave. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/858025/majorca-protest-mass-tourism-palma-without-limits-there-is-no-future https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/858025/majorca-protest-...
weeksie 7y ago
I don't understand. Are people traveling with their dogs? How are short term rentals responsible for people not cleaning up dogshit? Are they staying in spare rooms and walking the owner's dog?

ivanhoe 7y ago

Just out of curiosity, did you try to talk to your neighbor and ask politely that he informs his guests to clean up after their dogs?

fxtentacle 7y ago
Our neighbor is actually one of the better hosts because he still lives in the same house as his guests and talks to them in person. And he is trying hard to limit the bad effects from his guests, but with little success. The dogs are only one of many problems. As another example, in some countries it is still customary to throw your trash onto the main road where it will be burned at night. Most of the issues are due to guests that have a very different culture and do not speak German, French, or English. For newly rich Chinese, the host is understandably at a loss to explain our dos and donts. We also tried picture signs for explaining the dogs issue and there's a government-paid waste bag dispenser nearby. But a large part comes down to laziness and ignorance from the guests. If you never have to pick up your dog poop at home, would you do it while on vacation? Would you still do it even if nobody is watching? The peak of that attitude are UK tourists, notorious for their entitled "I am on vacation so I don't give a sh" approach. UK partying groups overdid it to the point where governments prohibit direct flights to keep them away. So how do you plan to re-educate them for a 3 day trip? In my opinion, the only good option is keeping impersonal tourists out of the residential areas. If they stay with friends and family, they will behave. But if they stay anonymously, no way to make them behave. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/858025/majorca-protest-mass-tourism-palma-without-limits-there-is-no-future https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/858025/majorca-protest-...

weeksie 7y ago

I don't understand. Are people traveling with their dogs? How are short term rentals responsible for people not cleaning up dogshit? Are they staying in spare rooms and walking the owner's dog?