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> allow more hotels to be built This won’t solve the problem because AirBnB is a fundamentally different lodging stock that meets different market demands. A t
by teeray 3y ago
> allow more hotels to be built
This won’t solve the problem because AirBnB is a fundamentally different lodging stock that meets different market demands. A traditional hotel cannot reasonably accommodate a group of friends / a few families that want to stay together, cook together, eat, and recreate in the same living space.
The most a hotel can usually offer is a sad suite with an efficiency kitchen. More often it’s connected rooms with Grandma and Grandpa three floors away and another Aunt and Uncle in the other tower of the hotel.
- scoofy 3y agoI mean, I both disagree, and reject the point regardless. The vast majority of instances of vacationers could be supplied by hotels if it were easy and legal to build multi-unit hotels. If there are use cases where Airbnb is superior, so be it but demand for Airbnb units would drop significantly if the vast majority of folks can stay in a hotel for a better price-to-product value.