It's not just good for travelers, but also for cities, who will at least see some tourist revenue this summer. Not as much as usual, but more than they'd get if they only had hotels.
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Many people I know who plan to travel this summer plan to stay in Airbnbs rather than hotels, to make social distancing easier. I never imagined this would be one of the benefits of Airbnb, but having more options makes the world more robust in the face of unexpected events.
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Although you could argue hotels could be considered safer in terms of hygienic protocols after each stay.
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Possibly, but from what I've read so far it seems that the big danger is not from surfaces but from airborne transmission. I.e. from being in the same room with people who are infected.
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Whenever you do something in a second way in order to increase reliability, it's presumably an instance of this. If the second way were more efficient, it would already be the first way. It might be interesting to ask if there are general principles about doing it right.
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It also helps that Airbnbs would be cheaper than a typical hotel
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Not true at all in my experience over the past month here in CO. Particularly if your booking a home via AirBnB for a family. An AirBnB home is 2-4x more expensive than a nice Marriott property for a party of 4.
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Assuming the accommodation portion of AirBnB survives. I can see governments with an interest in limiting tourism and contact tracing putting significant restrictions on casual rental practices.
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and who are gonna clean these Airbnb flats? How will you know if it has been sterilized?
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You could ask the same question about hotels. But it’s not clear this matters much, the main mode of transmission seems to be airborne, not from non-sterile surfaces.
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