At this time, 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 method to regulating our trade that’s extra clear, easy and constant throughout the bloc. At this time, this hope is nearer to turning 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 more money, they opened their San Francisco condominium and welcomed the primary friends on Airbnb.
At this time, extra folks share their houses on Airbnb within the EU than anyplace else on the planet. For a lot of European households, internet hosting is an financial lifeline, and practically half say the extra earnings helps them afford the rising price of residing.
As with different improvements, Airbnb’s development over the past 15 years has generally outpaced native guidelines which have been unclear or outdated. We have now at all times sought to develop in collaboration with communities and we’re pleased with our work with particular person governments up to now: round 80% of our prime 200 markets globally have some sort of regulation in place at present.
Inside the EU, we noticed the challenges that arose from guidelines evolving concurrently and independently throughout the area. Within the absence of clear regional steering, methods to write efficient native guidelines, get entry to information, defend housing, and adjust to EU guidelines has, at occasions,been unclear. In some instances, historic and burdensome native guidelines – which have been sometimes designed for motels – 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 worldwide instance of methods to regulate short-term leases, and provides clear steering to platforms and authorities on vital issues, together with methods to share information and make native guidelines work for everybody.
With clear guidelines of the highway in place, our precedence is to increase 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 wish 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 a hit 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 residence, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who’ve welcomed greater than 1 billion visitor arrivals throughout over 220 nations and areas. Journey on Airbnb retains extra of the monetary advantages of tourism with the folks and locations that make it occur. Airbnb has generated billions of {dollars} in earnings for Hosts, most of whom are people itemizing the houses by which they reside. 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 all over the world. Airbnb has helped advance greater than 1,000 regulatory frameworks for short-term leases, together with in 80% of our prime 200 geographies. In late 2020, to assist our continued enlargement and diversification, we launched the Metropolis Portal to offer 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 all over the world to advance journey that finest serves communities.
About Airbnb.org
Airbnb.org is a nonprofit group devoted to facilitating momentary stays for folks in occasions of disaster all over the world. Airbnb.org operates independently and leverages Airbnb, Inc.’s expertise, companies, 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 residence to folks impacted by Hurricane Sandy. This sparked a motion and marked the start of a program that permits Hosts on Airbnb to offer stays for folks in occasions of want. Since then, this system has developed to deal with 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 houses and helped present lodging to 100,000 folks in occasions of want. Airbnb.org is a separate and unbiased entity from Airbnb, Inc. Airbnb, Inc. doesn’t cost service charges for Airbnb.org supported stays on its platform.
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