As we speak, Nathan Blecharczyk, Co-Founder and Chief Technique Officer at Airbnb, wrote to European leaders welcoming progress made on EU short-term rental guidelines. For extra about Airbnb’s work supporting EU guidelines go to the EU Hub right here.
Pricey European Leaders,
Over two years in the past, we requested the EU to think about introducing an EU-wide strategy to regulating our trade that’s extra clear, easy and constant throughout the bloc. As we speak, this hope is nearer to changing into a actuality and we thank the EU for its management on this matter.
Airbnb started in 2008 when two of our co-founders couldn’t afford their hire. To assist earn some extra cash, they opened their San Francisco house and welcomed the primary friends on Airbnb.
As we speak, extra individuals share their properties on Airbnb within the EU than wherever else on this planet. For a lot of European households, internet hosting is an financial lifeline, and almost half say the extra earnings helps them afford the rising value of residing.
As with different improvements, Airbnb’s development during the last 15 years has typically outpaced native guidelines which have been unclear or outdated. Now we have at all times sought to develop in collaboration with communities and we’re happy with our work with particular person governments to this point: round 80% of our high 200 markets globally have some sort of regulation in place at the moment.
Throughout the EU, we noticed the challenges that arose from guidelines evolving concurrently and independently throughout the area. Within the absence of clear regional steerage, how you can write efficient native guidelines, get entry to information, defend housing, and adjust to EU guidelines has, at occasions,been unclear. In some circumstances, historic and burdensome native guidelines – which have been usually designed for accommodations – exclude many on a regular basis Europeans from the financial and social alternatives supplied by internet hosting.
We welcome new EU-wide guidelines as a watershed second for Airbnb and our trade. The brand new guidelines will function a world instance of how you can regulate short-term leases, and provides clear steerage to platforms and authorities on vital issues, together with how you can share information and make native guidelines work for everybody.
With clear guidelines of the street in place, our precedence is to develop our work with cities and governments to guard housing, assist on a regular basis households who host and contribute to a sustainable tourism future for Europe. We need to be good companions and take this chance to kickstart a brand new chapter in our collaborations.
We are going to proceed to be proactive in our work with you and your groups throughout the area to make the brand new EU guidelines successful for everybody.
Yours sincerely,
Nathan Blecharczyk
Co-Founder and Chief Technique Officer, Airbnb
About Airbnb
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three friends to their San Francisco house, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who’ve welcomed greater than 1 billion visitor arrivals throughout over 220 international locations and areas. Journey on Airbnb retains extra of the monetary advantages of tourism with the individuals and locations that make it occur. Airbnb has generated billions of {dollars} in earnings for Hosts, most of whom are people itemizing the properties during which they dwell. Amongst Hosts who report their gender, greater than half are girls, and one in 5 employed Hosts are both lecturers or healthcare employees. Journey on Airbnb additionally has generated greater than $4 billion in tax income around the globe. Airbnb has helped advance greater than 1,000 regulatory frameworks for short-term leases, together with in 80% of our high 200 geographies. In late 2020, to assist our continued growth and diversification, we launched the Metropolis Portal to supply governments with a one-stop store that helps information sharing and compliance with native registration guidelines. We proceed to put money into improvements and instruments to assist our ongoing work with governments around the globe to advance journey that finest serves communities.
About Airbnb.org
Airbnb.org is a nonprofit group devoted to facilitating short-term stays for individuals in occasions of disaster around the globe. Airbnb.org operates independently and leverages Airbnb, Inc.’s know-how, providers, and different assets at no cost to hold out Airbnb.org’s charitable goal. The inspiration for Airbnb.org started in 2012 with a single host named Shell who opened up her house to individuals impacted by Hurricane Sandy. This sparked a motion and marked the start of a program that enables Hosts on Airbnb to supply stays for individuals in occasions of want. Since then, this system has advanced to give attention to emergency response and to assist present stays to evacuees, reduction employees, refugees, asylum seekers, and frontline employees preventing the unfold of COVID-19. Since then, Hosts have supplied to open up their properties and helped present lodging to 100,000 individuals in occasions of want. Airbnb.org is a separate and impartial entity from Airbnb, Inc. Airbnb, Inc. doesn’t cost service charges for Airbnb.org supported stays on its platform.
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