[asokoloski]

Yes, there's a big difference between someone who rents out their apartment using Airbnb because they're away half the year, or has a spare room that they rent out, and someone who buys an entire building of 20 apartments and turns it into a hotel in all but name, skirting around all the consumer protections and regulations that have been put into place around hotels.

You can argue that the regulation of hotel-style Airbnb use is too lenient, or the regulation on real hotels is too onerous, but I don't know of any good argument that they should be treated differently.

Sorting this out would either lead to reduced demand for apartments to use with Airbnb as it becomes less attractive to large-scale landlords, or lead to greater demand of land for hotel usage.

[rlpb]

> ...turns it into a hotel in all but name, skirting around all the consumer protections and regulations that have been put into place around hotels.

Then the protections and regulations need to be adjusted to apply to businesses that operate like hotels, regardless of what they're called.

There's fundamentally no reason such a hotel shouldn't be able to list their rooms on Airbnb - as long as customers aren't deceived, and the law is complied with.