The global holiday rental group’s new approach comes as NSW considers joining Victoria in slapping a levy on short-term rental properties.
Global holiday rental giant Airbnb has launched a crackdown on low-quality listings by removing more than 100,000 properties worldwide in a bid to clean up its platform and address what it says can sometimes be a below-par experience for guests.
“We’ve also built a whole lot of tools to prevent those properties from being re-listed, and to help us make sure that those that are on our platform are accurate and provide a good guest experience.” This masthead revealed last month that almost 50,000 entire dwellings are listed as short-stay rentals in Victoria
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