that we here in venice must join forces with the other four major tourism centers namely florence rome milan and. we have to sit down with air b.n. b. and negotiate. naturally we can t ban these types of rentals but we need to combat the phenomenon for instance by ensuring that renting to tourists isn t as lucrative as running to locals or students. she s unable to tell me how if a city plans to achieve that. meanwhile night porter mateo seche his wife and eight year old daughter still apartment hunting he worries he may be out of a job by the end of the season he can t afford to buy a property but he still looks at what s on offer. from the plane to. the boat the enormous. cultural.
a room or an apartment and i will know that they ll be sleeping here in the window display and yes look like tree apartment with a view. to the bridge. sylvia has decided to move to the mainland we ll check back to see how she factors. i researched the business model of private short term rentals b. and b. is the leading provider. this graph shows exponential growth i want to know what impact back growth has on the local housing market. i find seven thousand private hosts almost three times the number of hotels most of the hosts have more than one property. i find one that has twenty seven listings another even has ninety that s not private home sharing it s an unlicensed commercial enterprise. i contact air b.n. b. spokesperson to find out why commercial listings on the internet platform not
home rental company air b.n. b. has decided to remove its listings for israeli settlements in the west bank the online platform said it would seize its operations in occupied territories at the core of disputes between israelis and palestinians israel s government slammed the move as discriminatory. the us president s daughter and white house adviser of her personal e-mail account for government business last year that s according to the washington post her lawyer says she sent the e-mails before she was refed on the rules presidential candidate hillary clinton s use of personal e-mail account was investigated by the f.b.i. . all next we had to lebanon where were a few g. families who ve escaped the hardest there being forced to hire out their children as day laborers to make ends meet some one hundred eighty thousand refugee children
platforms like air b.n. b. into spain s economy. brazil has one of the most generous pension systems in the world citizens retire at the age of fifty five on average that s why pensions especially those in the public sector account for about a third of all government spending but as demographics change of the baby boomer generation retires the country is heading for insolvency and debt crises spending cuts seem inevitable and have become a hot topic in sunday s presidential election run off the w. s of failure harms a road to reports. rush hour in sao paolo in brazil is big a city many people work far more than eight hours per day some start at a very early age so they can retire at fifty five and then continue to earn seventy percent of their final salary for the rest of their lives for decades that s been
visitors came to the german capital berlin that s the same number as in the whole of two thousand and five these days an increasing number of people choosing to source their accommodation with their room or an entire apartment through b. and b. but it s also about meeting people. that s really lovely and i ve seen a lot of apartments and cities through the. air b.n. b. was founded ten years ago and went on to become one of the most valuable stops of all time almost five million people in one hundred ninety countries use the service which is worth an estimated thirty billion dollars but it s certainly not a welcome concept everywhere with protests against the company becoming more commonplace some locals say they being priced out of their own cities by property owners are turning to air b.n. b. to make big bucks those concerns have prompted several cities and countries to