The worst example of the death of a city due to tourism that I have personally seen is Venice. Locals cannot afford to live there, too many junk souvenir shops, and restaurants selling small portions of pasta for 50 euros.
symmetricshaman
As a side note, Airbnb actually made ads that tried really hard to disprove this by showing some smart looking data and graphs. But in the corner of the video you could see that the source of the graphs and everything was just Airbnb themselves. it was just like the meme "we investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong!"
Gothicus
I lived in the city center of Budapest for 2 years. As a young professional, I wanted to experience the life in the center and be near to my workplace. Almost every second night there were AirBnb guests in multiple apartments in the building, mostly came to party in huge groups (10+ people) and they played music loudly, were really drunk and noisy, they behaved like they are still in the pub/club. If you asked them to be more considerate towards the people who actually live there, they laughed at your face or said they paid for their stay and they are here to have fun. The owners and renters slowly started to move out. It was in 2017-2019. Now I don't know anyone who lives in the center anymore. People live outside of the city results in more commuters and cars, worse air quality and in many cases these AirBnb guests don't care for keeping the city or the building clean and in good condition and they leave rubbish on the streets. It is very sad and should be regulated for sure as locals deserve to experience the beauty of their own cities and save time on transport to reach their workplace.
dianakriston
In Lisbon they banned new AirBnBs in the city center last year and immediately house prices fell by about 10%, whereas in the rest of the city (where AirBnB continued to exist) rent and house prices continued to soar.
portugueseeagle
Airbnb as a flat sharing service is brilliant.
Airbnb as an unregulated rental broker is a fucking cancer.
skitlus
My daughter found a camera hidden in the bathroom of a home we rented via AirBnB last year. It was the last time we did that. My daughter who is 12 noticed it in the flowers on the toilet tank. I did everything to find the bastard who handed me the keys. I couldn't reported it to the app and made a police report.
ryanreedgibson
It's not only Cities. I live in a small town in the UK that has a massive tourism industry (95% of all jobs are tried in some way to tourism). House prices are some of the highest in all of Britain. Whenever a house goes for sale, it inevitably gets bought out by a developer, who turns it into Airbnb apartments. As a result, there in no affordable housing within 3 miles. That has had the knock on effect of there being no one who can afford to work in town and live there, so we have an employment shortage. In turn, a lot of the businesses here lost a lot of their income due to staff shortages and having to shut for the day. Which in the long run will result in a drop in yearly visitors. This is disastrous, especially since, because of Brexit and a weak pound, domestic tourism has been at it's highest in 10 years, and we can't afford to lose that trade. Now it's the winter and the whole town is a ghost town.
MamLewis
I was an early adopter of Airbnb. I had a great time. The best thing was how enthusiastic the hosts were to host you and tell you about their neighbourhood. I hung out with hosts, one loaned me their car, had great conversations. Their hospitality meant I looked past the flaws, like creaky beds, pet hairs, mould etc.
This was before people who were only interested in the money got onto the site. Now the site is running meta hotels where you don't see the owner or where you do meet them but it's obvious they only want to see the back of you and aren't interested in you apart from showing you around and telling you where the bins are before they leave.
When I meet a host like this then I give an honest review. Warts and all. I'm also going back to hotels wherever I can. The site is a property investment platform in all but name
imrannazir
Adam, you should make a video on how the Mexican government made a deal with Airbnb to attract American digital nomads to live in Mexico City, creating one of the most extreme cases of gentrification ever. Apartments that used to go for 500 USD a month went up to 4000 in a few months
ivanleech
“Peter doesn’t exist. Did your mental health decline suddenly? No. Use Fabulous!” That’s probably the funniest ad plug-in I’ve ever seen on YouTube
nickmurray
I lived my wholelife in prague and Adam is absolutely correct. The city center is a place you mostly avoid as a inhabitant of Prague, and its precisely for the reasons in this video. Good luck getting groceries, good luck moving around in the sea of people, good luck being able to afford anything past Karlovo náměstí
danielsilhavy
You know, Ebay started as a way for people to sell off their old junk from the attic.
lindybeige
Some Canadian cities require that you live in the property if you want to do short-term rentals. Usually people have a second entrance to what is essentially a full hotel room (personal kitchen, bathroom) in the basement.
fuckyoutubefuckinghandles
Imagine something utterly crazy like if a house or apartment was a home where someone lives instead of an investment to enrich someone who already has more than they need.
poilboiler
I often travel by myself, and honestly every time I’ve priced out AirBnB locations I’ve ended up going with a hotel instead, because the AirBNBs tend to include so many fees and cleaning charges that the hotel is more affordable.
SkipperJane
I'd like to also point out that as MANY people cannot afford living in Prague, they simply move further, which causes prices to rise everywhere and unnecessary commuting. Last year we started building a 100m2 house 80 minutes from Prague for about 250K euro. Today the exact same house, just two year old across the street sells for 350K euro. I mean, 100K per year is about 2.5 times my brutto income and my income is in about top 30 %. At least central bank is keeping interest rates higher so finally no one can afford anything, meaning prices stopped rising and everyone is living with their mum.
BHFJohnny
The situation is quite the same in Paris. Being a student and trying to live inside the capital has become ridiculously difficult. I have some friends who are obliged to make from 3 to 4 hours of transportations per day just to go to university due to the absolute madness of the current market.
Vraimentjaipasdideela
Most Airbnb rentals do not feature ANY "Petr" individuals giving you keys. You get a door keypad PIN or a locker PIN to extract the key from through a text message. There is no human interaction whatsoever.
ultralysp
My standard choice for staying in a different city overnight is a hostel. It's typically the cheapest option there is and it doesn't steal apartment space from locals. It's basically a hotel, just more space efficient and with less privacy.
marcelwannieck
I totally agree. AirBnB was meant as "I live here, if you need a low-price stay for a couple if nights, I have free room / sofa". That was a great concept for the tourists to meet locals and for locals to get some extra money. Now it turned into a freaking unregulated money-machine.
The same as Uber. That was meant for people to share rides (i.e. "I have a car and I am going from A to B.. someone wants to go with me and share the fuel price?") That was a good concept to save money for both parties, to decrease traffic congestion... It turned out to be unlicensed taxi service (i.e. it creates even more congestion)...
It's sad when a service meant for sharing and making the community better turns into a gold mine for somebody and makes the situation even worse
