• Working directly with Airbnb at the executive and field levels and with bedandbreakfast.com (owned by HomeAway) to ensure that our concerns and those of the innkeeping industry are being heard and addressed. AIHP is advocating for online rental platforms to provide local and state regulating bodies with address and contact information as a requirement when hosts list their properties. We are encouraged that this requirement was part of the recent agreement between Airbnb and the City of San Francisco.
• Working with our members and legislators at the state and local levels, including Virginia, Texas, New Mexico, Indiana, St. Paul, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Florida. In many of these states, we have written letters supporting our members to state and local legislators and government officials. We have attended workgroup and legislative hearings to support our member’s efforts at the local and state level. We have hosted numerous conference calls with our members and the industry throughout the country to discuss this critical issue and to lend support to our members. We have seen some recent success with legislation to combat the proliferation of unregistered short-term rental properties in places like Virginia and Texas, and AIHP will continue to track this legislation and support state and local associations in their efforts to support laws that benefit our members.
• Compiling a tool kit for our members to educate themselves about how to get involved and make regulatory and code enforcement changes at the local level. It will build on the work done by the Pennsylvania Bed and Breakfast Association (PABBI), with the addition of information gathered by AIHP and other states and municipalities. This is scheduled to go out to our members this month.
If you have any questions about AIHP or our position about short-term rentals, please contact
Rob Fulton, CEO of AIHP
at:
[email protected] or call
844-317-9632.