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Airbnb claims $840K in Seminole football business, $700K for Gators

11/19/2018

Vacation rental home owners marketed by Airbnb in Tallahassee and Gainesville combined to welcome nearly 14,000 visitors during the seven weekends of Florida State and University of Florida home football games,... Read More

Next clash over ‘sharing’ business models – cars – being waged at Orlando airport

Scott Powers

10/29/2018

Our Politics

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Yet again, a 21st-century business model is clashing with how business always has been done — creating a running battle at Orlando International Airport and other airports where authorities are trying to stop e... Read More

Airbnb as retirement supplement? Company says 45 percent of hosts are seniors

Scott Powers

04/26/2018

Our Fun

There is a rising alternative to working as a greeter in Wal-Mart: Airbnb contends nearly half of its Florida vacation-rental and home-sharing hosts are seniors, adding $150 million to their incomes in 2017. I... Read More

Orlando City Council votes to allow home sharing vacation rentals

Scott Powers

02/12/2018

Our Politics

The city of Orlando took one of the biggest steps of any Florida city in recent years to ease laws that restrict vacation rentals, approving an ordinance Monday to allow owner-occupied rentals in single-family ... Read More

FIU out of anti-Airbnb, hotel association research project

Scott Powers

07/23/2017

Our State

Florida International University has been dropped from a controversial research contract proposed by the American Hotel & Lodging Association that had been criticized as potentially unethical by the nationa... Read More

Watchdog group claims hotel industry, FIU, teaming for anti-Airbnb research

Scott Powers

07/20/2017

Our State

A watchdog group called the Checks & Balances Project is charging that the leading hotel industry association may be paying Florida International University to produce research for the industry's lobbying a... Read More

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Airbnb claims $840K in Seminole football business, $700K for Gators

Next clash over ‘sharing’ business models – cars – being waged at Orlando airport

Airbnb as retirement supplement? Company says 45 percent of hosts are seniors

Orlando City Council votes to allow home sharing vacation rentals

FIU out of anti-Airbnb, hotel association research project

Watchdog group claims hotel industry, FIU, teaming for anti-Airbnb research