StrangeSights: Stay in Shrek’s swamp; a new dog-watching record; and, messages in bottles…
DAVID ADAMS provides a round-up of some stories on the odder side of life…
Airbnb non-profit to focus on finding housing for disaster, pandemic workers
Washington DC, USThomson Reuters Foundation Home-sharing giant Airbnb will enlist its global network of millions of participants to help house aid workers and health care staff working to fight COVID-19, it said on Monday, aiming to fill a gap in shelter options amid the pandemic. Its planned program will find housing for workers who before […]
Airbnb bans parties in COVID-19 fight
Reuters No more parties and events in homes listed on Airbnb, the short-term home rental company said on Thursday as it tries to enforce strict social-distancing norms to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The new rules include a cap on occupancy at 16, with hosts or guests who try to skirt the rules facing a ban […]
StrangeSights: Communion with chopsticks; chief mouser announces retirement; and, a Blockbuster experience…
DAVID ADAMS looks at the odder side of life…
STRANGESIGHTS: UNUSUAL AIRBNBS WANTED; ARTWORK DISCOVERY IN THRIFT SHOP; AND, A NEW RECORD FOR BOOK WITH MOST ENDINGS
DAVID ADAMS looks at the odder side of life…
EX-PRISONERS: FROM CELL TO WHERE? NEW US FOCUS ON HOME POST-PRISON
CAREY L BIRON, reports for Thomson Reuters Foundation, on some innovative programs in the US aimed at helping ex-prisoners after they’ve been released…
WOW! NO GUILT TRIP – IN SPACE STARVED CITIES, A “FAIRER” TYPE OF HOME SHARING EMERGES
SOPHIE DAVIES, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on a new initiative aimed at helping to make tourism more sustainable…
STRANGESIGHTS: VALE GRUMPY CAT, WE’LL MISS YOUR SCOWL; RAVENS PROTECT THE TOWER; AND, STAYING WITH THE SPICE GIRLS…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the other side of life…
No charge for Airbnb rooms as victims of Greek wildfires scramble for shelter
Thomson Reuters Foundation Victims of wildfires that engulfed a seaside town in Greece, killing at least 82 people and damaging or destroying hundreds of homes, scrambled to find shelter on Thursday as Airbnb stepped in to match those in need with free rooms. The fires – the deadliest in the country’s history – overwhelmed the […]
Airbnb vows to tackle sex trafficking in rental homes
Thomson Reuters Foundation Short-term home rental company Airbnb said on Monday it would invest in new technology to crack down on modern slavery amid concerns that traffickers are turning its properties into “pop-up brothels” to sexually exploit vulnerable women and girls. Airbnb exclusively told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that it has teamed up with anti-trafficking […]