Why Airbnb Desperately Wants to Pay Hotel Taxes
16.02.2015
by Alison Griswold, Slate
For Airbnb, hotel is a touchy term. The word appears exactly zero times on the company’s “About Us” page, which instead describes Airbnb as a “trusted community marketplace” and a platform that “connects people to unique travel experiences.” Airbnb doesn’t want to be seen as part of the hotel industry, so it’s positioned itself as the exact opposite. Where hotels are old, stodgy, and corporate, Airbnb hopes to appear young, fun, and personal. In competing against hotels, Airbnb has gone to great lengths to distance itself from them. Yet in city after city, Airbnb is also insisting that the time has come for it to embrace hotel taxes.
Why Airbnb Desperately Wants to Pay Hotel Taxes
Quelle: Slate
