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Hotel room rates remain stagnant whilst Airbnb continues to grow in Thailand

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Who gets that money, the customer or airbnb?
 
Air bnb of course. There will always be a a tiny risk with air bnb due to life circumstances. The host isn't a hotel with permanent staff 24/7

An emergency, to many to mention could mean the host isn't available for check in

If you don't like that risk then go ahead and pay a hotel room for a month at 4 times the price and a tiny space
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  • Can someone explain to me what is either healthy or sustainable about residential condos and other unregulated buildings being used as short-term hotel accommodation, with no taxes being paid and no s

  • I don't foresee much of a future for Airbnb in Thailand, taking money away from the "Elite" hotel owners, no taxes or VAT paid, how long before they are deemed illegal, or has that already happened?

  • I've lived in Thailand for 21 years, done hotels throughout the country.  Our daughter recently visited and arranged Airbnb on the 46 floor of The Tower condo on Silom Rd, and condos in Phuket and Sam

Time to make AirBNB illegal until it coughs up taxes equivalent to VAT plus hotel taxes plus corporation taxes (or tax on turnover)

2 hours ago, arithai12 said:

Who gets that money, the customer or airbnb?

 

airbnb

facebook marketplace will certainly overtake airbnb.

6 hours ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

 

I applaud the visa regulations and the enforcement, keep the riff-raff out I say.

While I do agree, the problem comes when foreigners don’t realize that we’re all riff-raff to them. There is low hanging fruit riff-raff and there is riff-raff.

 

Either group can be subject to harassment and regulation changes at any time for no reason whatsoever, or simply because Somchai had a dream.

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