Is Air bnb an unfair competition for the hostel owner? At first sight, Airbnb and hostel are not the same things: on the one hand, Airbnb is a internet platform which connects people who search affordable housing and people who offer their housing during their absence. On the other hand, the hotel is most of all a service: it allows to find easily a room wherever you want for any budget and with a real delivery.

But, very fast, many people used air bnb like a mean to earn money. This financial logic has many negatives consequences for the economy, especially for the tourism economy.

First and foremost, it is essential to say that the owners on airbnb are most of the time private people. The hoteliers or hotels owners are necessarily professionals. They have some strict obligations while the private people who rent their housing are less constrained.

Normally, private people cannot rent their housing very often because of the legal system and especially the taxes are really different according to the situation. If you rent often your housing, you become a trader and you must respect a lot of rules (security, taxes...). But, if you rent your house occasionally, we consider that it’s an exceptional situation and we don’t must respect this types of rules.

It’s a very difficult situation for the hotel owners who must respect the tourism reglementation: they have the impression that the concurrence is unfair.

To conclude, many hotel owner looking for a solution to fight this fierce concurrence. But, the government must regulate the personal rent too.