Wow Air bnb fined 15 milllion for ripping of customers, I am not shocked!
Yet another reason to book direct with your host. Why the state and federal government allows these mega businesses to control the tourism industry blows my mind.
If, for example , tourism Tas managed the industry and created a platform to take the booking like air bnb does they would have enough dollars to fund the stadium and build a new hospital in just a few years. Think of about 15 percent or more of nearly all bookings for accommodations going over seas in commissions to booking .com in the Netherlands and air bnb in LA and more. Air bnb are the clever marketers, now even new businesses coming on as short stay call themselves an ‘Air bnb’ . Hard to watch. I’m all for fair trading and different accommodation options but they don’t need to be sold through these booking platforms. Then we have the people who think it’s safer to book through air bnb as this is what they have been told? Even though they are sitting outside the chalet 🤦🏼♀️They learn when they have a problem and need to deal with a overseas call centre.
If you can’t get your head around what I’m trying to say, then imagine corporations overseas created a platform and all the bookings you need to make for a dr, dentist, builder, sparky, architect had to go through airdr, airdentist, airbuilder, airsparky, airarchitect etc etc and we just sent 15 percent of every transaction overseas to this company to do fuck all. It just sounds fucking stupid doesn’t it?! So hopefully it wouldn’t happen . But that’s what is happening in tourism . It is completely Nuts! And to make it worse our tourism department seems to support and promote them. air bnb has marketed itself as this lovely friendly platform to create connections, or some load of toss, while they are just ripping people off!
Eloise Emmett 