People have used hotels to find lodging for short-term stays for well over a century. Up until recently, people were forced to seek out such accommodations at traditional hotels. The growth of tech startups as part of the greater gig economy within the past decade gave people a new option for seeking lodging-related accommodations.
Airbnb is currently the largest such tech startup currently competing in the gig economy as far as providing lodging on a short-term basis in concerned. Owners of residential properties found it much easier than ever before to list their properties on Airbnb for short-term rental purposes.
For hundreds of years, if not several thousands of years, humans have hosted parties within their own residences. Although house parties can be a seriously fun time, many people are scared to host such events in their own homes due to the costs that might arise from liabilities such as guests stealing or breaking things, visitors’ behavior resulting in other people or things taking damage that law enforcement may end up placing blame upon the owner of the home for, and so on.
For this reason, many people interested in hosting house parties have turned to Airbnb to find suitable short-term lodging accommodations to do just that. Unfortunately for people interested in seeking out such short-term lodging accommodations through Airbnb for the purpose of hosting parties, Airbnb will reportedly ban property owners from listing their properties for the purpose of hosting parties.
Just yesterday, on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, Brian Chesky, the Chief Executive Officer of Airbnb, announced via his own Twitter account that the company would be undertaking a variety of measures to keep people from offering up their properties to renters on a short-term basis to host parties.
This news came just hours after a Halloween party hosted at a house in Orinda, California, became the scene of a shooting that resulted in the death of five people.
CEO Brian Chesky made clear that Margaret Richardson, an existing member of Airbnb’s Executive Team, was immediately placed in charge of rolling out the various initiatives that would shortly thereafter be rolled out in the name of policing its platform to prevent the renting of properties on a nightly basis for hosting parties.
Dil Bole Oberoi
