PARIS (Reuters) – The City of Paris is suing Airbnb for publishing 1,000 illegal rentals adverts, which could cost the American rental website more than 12.5 million euros ($14 million), the mayor of Paris told a newspaper in an interview published on Sunday. Under French law, home owners in Paris …
Exclusive: Tami Barker, who said she was canceling a guest’s booking because the woman was Asian, must take a course in Asian American studies An Airbnb host who canceled a woman’s reservation using a racist remark has been ordered to pay $5,000 in damages for racial discrimination and take a course in …
President Trump has been in office less than a month but already local and global tourism organizations predict that his policies, including a travel ban targeting seven countries, will hurt the nation’s $2-trillion travel industry. Several travel executives, including the heads of Uber, Expedia and Airbnb, have condemned Trump’s temporary …
Hackers have turned our cheap electronic devices against us. And at this rate, it’s only going to get worse. In mid-September, the website of Brian Krebs, a leading cybersecurity reporter, went down under the weight of the biggest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in history. Akamai, a company that provides backend …
That can only be a good thing TOP ten Airbnb horror stories!” is a staple headline on certain list-based websites. Each litany of woe will usually include at least one tale of sexual debauchery, one of drug abuse and one of a soiled apartment. Sometimes, they manage to combine all three. …
It’s easy to get a vacation rental in Iceland’s capital city, but next to impossible to get a year-long lease. When Nicholas Herring’s landlord informed him that he was being evicted so that his apartment could be converted into a full-time Airbnb rental, he was distressed but unsurprised. This is …
Airbnb is offering two guests the chance to spend a night at Kronborg Castle — the castle from “Hamlet” — in Helsingør, Denmark. If you’ve ever dreamed of living like a Shakespeare character for a day, you could soon find out what it’s like. Airbnb is offering two guests the …