luka
Well-known member
I've just stayed in an area, in an air b&b, with its fair share of anti air b&b graffiti. The argument on the walls focussing on rent rises and housing shortages caused by the conversion of flats into one room hotels.
Yyaldrin doesn't like the free dock less bicycles and scooters which are left littering the roads and pavements of tourist cities and associates them with air b&b.
The other effect, one I'm more ambivalent about, is what air b&b seems to do to local economies. I assume it allows fairly marginal, hipster, to use a shorthand, businesses to survive outside the main hubs, in ex industrial areas, in usually gentrified residential areas. Cocktail bars, coffee shops, book shops, resturaunts, even record shops.
What I like, leaving aside the ethics of it, about air b&b is that it facilitates a new kind of holiday and a new kind of tourism, embedded in local areas, eating, drinking there, changing those areas by your presence certainly, but not necessarily for the worst, or at least the losses may be offset by gains.
Yyaldrin doesn't like the free dock less bicycles and scooters which are left littering the roads and pavements of tourist cities and associates them with air b&b.
The other effect, one I'm more ambivalent about, is what air b&b seems to do to local economies. I assume it allows fairly marginal, hipster, to use a shorthand, businesses to survive outside the main hubs, in ex industrial areas, in usually gentrified residential areas. Cocktail bars, coffee shops, book shops, resturaunts, even record shops.
What I like, leaving aside the ethics of it, about air b&b is that it facilitates a new kind of holiday and a new kind of tourism, embedded in local areas, eating, drinking there, changing those areas by your presence certainly, but not necessarily for the worst, or at least the losses may be offset by gains.