The French under the age of 25 years who “have less than three positive comments on stays previous” can no longer book of whole house near them.
Airbnb wants to avoid overflows in the apartments rented for a short time. The platform will test from this Friday to “limit the feasts unauthorized” and avoid inappropriate behaviors, preventing the French users under the age of 25 years old to book some rentals located near their home.
Specifically, the French under the age of 25 years “with less than three positive comments on stays previous” can no longer book of whole house close to home, according to a press release issued Thursday evening. However, they are still allowed to book any type of accommodation outside of this area and can also book rooms, in the absence of a whole house. The same measures are put in place from Friday in the Uk and Spain, said Airbnb.
A small part of applications for major repairs
According to the company, these measures are effective. “The first tests carried out in the United States and Canada have shown a significant decrease in the number of nights unauthorized organized by these categories of users after the implementation of this measure,” says Airbnb, which states that, “only 0.003% of holiday requests for major repairs”.
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at the End of July, the daily Le Parisien had identified excess repeated, until accusations of prostitution, in both rentals Airbnb located in Tremblay-en-France, Seine-Saint-Denis, causing the wrath of the neighborhood. “How will I know (young partiers) are going to put such a mess??”, defended himself in the daily the owner of these units. “The criteria for rental of Airbnb, the platform on which are the bulk of my rentals, are easily overridden !”
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“We want to do everything in our power to promote the relations of good neighbourhood and we hope that this new measure will not leave any doubt on the fact that the holiday season unauthorized have no place in the accommodation offered on Airbnb”, explained Thursday night the director of public affairs of Airbnb for the EMEA (Europe Middle East Africa), Patrick Robinson, quoted in a press release.
