[BurningFrog]

There are two parties in the rental car transaction:

    Hertz <-> Driver

The AirBnB transaction has three parties:

    AirBnB <-> Host <-> Guest

While you can construct sentences that look similar for both cases, and the word "license" is used in both contexts, it's a fundamentally different dynamic.

[rahimnathwani]

"The AirBnB transaction has three parties"

That's incorrect. AirBnB provides a platform on which hosts can list their properties. There are two parties to that transaction.

In case you're talking about the subsequent 'rental' transaction, AirBnB is pretty clear that that's between the host and the guest. See section 5 of their ToS: https://www.airbnb.com/terms

[BurningFrog]

You seem to ask us to pretend those two transactions are unrelated, but I don't understand why.

[ot]

The transaction is more like

Host <-> Airbnb <-> Guest

All the communication (and the billing) happens through the platform.

[BurningFrog]

Agreed. I wanted to draw a circle, but I don't have the Ascii Art skills.

[rahimnathwani]

The post is about requirements on AirBnB when a property is listed. There is no guest involved when that happens. There is only AirBnB and the host.