"How does anyone find a regular hotel these days? That's why you need a website to coordinate"
? So your point is only AirBnB 'can make a website' ?
If regulations were lax before AirBnB existed there'd be 1000 different sites you could list upon and hoteliers of all kinds would charge less. Or at least many would.
Because AirBnb was the progenitor of the lease-your-room modality they captured the market and have a little bit of a natural monopoly in it, as there's some coordination with marketplace, identity, etc..
Just like there are a myriad ways to 'book a hotel room' - there'd be a myriad was to book your '6 room place'.
There are a myriad of ways to book hotels right now.
There's no reason, that with more open regulatory scnearios, there wouldn't be a myriad ways to 'book your 6 room flat'.
Or rather, you could have the option to list with a few.
AirBnB 'broke through' into a market that didn't quite exist, partly because it's literally illegal in most places. Very few landlords allow subleasing rooms as well.
Both AirBnB and Uber created a market in a 'regulatory grey area' so they kind of developed a marketplace monopoly.
If that gray area did not exist previously, AirBnB and Uber would not have had the power to break through and dominate.
? So your point is only AirBnB 'can make a website' ?
If regulations were lax before AirBnB existed there'd be 1000 different sites you could list upon and hoteliers of all kinds would charge less. Or at least many would.
Because AirBnb was the progenitor of the lease-your-room modality they captured the market and have a little bit of a natural monopoly in it, as there's some coordination with marketplace, identity, etc..
Just like there are a myriad ways to 'book a hotel room' - there'd be a myriad was to book your '6 room place'.