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Ok, there are more and more short term rentals, but in these short term rentals are people: tourists, workers, etc... Where were they before AirBnB? Hotels wou
by GuB-42 3y ago
Ok, there are more and more short term rentals, but in these short term rentals are people: tourists, workers, etc... Where were they before AirBnB?
Hotels would be the obvious answer, but as far as I know, hotels didn't suffer a massive drop in the number of occupants to match the increase in the number of short term rentals. So, what caused the increase demand in housing for short stays?
- pmontra 3y agoMaybe the very availability of short stays. You looked for a stay before AirBnB, didn't find one, didn't go. You look for a stay post AirBnB, always find one, go. This is true especially for tourists (in combo with low cost flights) but it opens up opportunities also for workers that didn't have the same flexibly of movement and/or couldn't make the cost of a stay fit into what they get for their services.