Many industry insiders predict that the homestay industry will enter a cruel phase of elimination, and competition will only become more intense.
Editor’s note: This article is from “News Media” , author Xu Wei, editor Jiang Shizhou.
In recent years, the hotel has become the “first choice” for many people to travel. Compared with traditional hotels, the hotel is more convenient and fast, and it is also more literary and local. It can effectively meet the diverse living needs of different groups of people and is therefore very popular.
The essence of the hotel is “shared accommodation”. On the fast-moving economy of the sharing economy, the hotel also becomes a “window”. According to the China Tourism and B&B Development Association, the transaction volume of China’s shared accommodation market in 2014 was only 1.9 billion yuan; by 2019, this number is expected to rise to 19 billion yuan, which is ten times that of the original.
As the industry enters the fast lane of development, disputes and chaos between the platform, the landlord and the tenant are also quite a lot. Candid photographs, housing fraud, and even personal infringement… People began to re-examine the standardization and safety of the property.
In recent days, Caijing’s new media has measured four homestay platforms, including Airbnb, Pig Short-term Rental, Wood Bird B&B, and Tujia Homestay. It is not necessary to provide a business license or industry license when reviewing individual operators. In addition, fake fake pictures can be easily reviewed in 3 of them.
“Shared B&B should be based on safety as a priority.” Zhu Xi, a professor at China University of Political Science and Law, pointed out that “this security is not simply the protection of consumer rights, but also the security of society, including places where it cannot be a crime.”
Frequent chaos: Is the “threshold” of the homeowner’s landlord too low?
In May of this year, CCTV exposed a news of a sneak shot of a tenant:
Hangzhou Citizen Yunfei (a pseudonym) traveled to Qingdao with friends during the “May 1st” holiday, staying in a “Browse User Evaluation” Airbnb B&B, the price of about three days was about 1,700 yuan. However, after the check-in, Yunfei found that the location of the bed in the hotel room was actually stolen with a pinhole camera.
What’s even more shocking is that there’s a door to the door and two bedrooms.