Airbnb removes neo-Nazi group’s accounts from platform
US: Airbnb has announced that it has removed more than 60 accounts associated with the online neo-Nazi group Iron March in a purge of white supremacists from its platform, according to the Daily Mail. The short-term rental platform made the response after the identities of hundreds of Iron March users were leaked over the Internet […]
Expansion plans revealed for Nigerian platform Muster
Nigeria: Nigerian shared accommodation platform Muster has revealed its expansion plans to onboard property owners in Ghana. Founded by Ibraheem Babalola and Ugochukwu Okoro in 2017, Muster is similar to Airbnb and the Spanish rental service Badi. It currently focuses on locations in Lagos and Abuja. Properties are listed from third-party owners and undergo a quality control […]
Airbnb to be the first target of digital tax regulations from Poland
Poland: Tadeuz Koscinski, the newly instated Polish finance minister, announced today plans to implement tax on Airbnb operators in Poland. The latest in plans by European leaders to understand and regulate Airbnb, FT reports that Koscinski seeks to tax not only operators, but the company itself. “If we’re going to be making sure that anyone […]
Airbnb establishes partnership with UBC
US: Airbnb has signed a contract with American joinery and carpentry union, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America [UBC]. The deal lays a promise that Airbnb will use labour from the UBC in any of its major future investment projects. This is the third partnership between Airbnb and labour unions- the other two […]
2020 travel tech, accommodation, co-living and co-working trends rolled up
Worldwide: T5 Strategies managing director and principal, Sean Worker, provides his second blog ahead of IHM Recharge in Barcelona, with a roll up of travel tech, accommodation, co-living and co-working trends in 2020. Does everything in travel and accommodation need to be an experience and edgy? During the last month or so, lots of trend […]
Short Term Rentalz · STRz podcast 19: Luca Zambello, Jurny
Short Term Rentalz · STRz podcast 19: Luca Zambello, Jurny
Skift unveils its 2020 Megatrends report: Review
Worldwide: Over the last decade, the hotel and hospitality industry has seen “seismic” change, according to the latest Megatrends report for the short-term rental industry from Skift. This includes an erosion of typical ideas of hotel brand loyalty, the rise of online and tech-based solutions for most business segments, a rise in sharing economy and, […]