Airbnb vs. Hotels: A Price Comparison
And this is why the hospitality industry is organizing against them.<p>I love the AirBnB idea and the implementation. There is a dark side however. Hotel organizations have historically been unable to change quickly, and operate on pretty thin margins. So the existence of a significant quantity of AirBnB rentals in a market does the equivalent of the Federal Reserve 'stress test' on weak banks, except it isn't simulated.<p>I am really on the fence about what that means. On the one hand it means a number of hotel properties will come on the market at distressed properties, on the other it means there will be a huge gap between really cheap motels and really high end hotels.<p>One thought was to buy up a mid-range hotel property and convert it into "Tech Suites" where for each pair of rooms connected by a door, one side stayed a hotel room and the other side became a small office. My local Sunnyvale city supervisor isn't completely against the idea but they are dubious about a mixed living/commercial zone at the scale of a motel/small hotel.