Airbnb threatens Israel’s hotel industry
The series of hotel overnight stays by unfamiliar tourists in Sep declined from final year, a Israel Hotel Association reported. The trade organisation joined a recover of a sum with a censure about unregulated foe from private rentals by online services such as Airbnb.
Foreign tourists spent 658,000 hotel nights in Israel final month, down 3% from Sep 2017. A arise in domestic tourism, however, some-more than done adult for a decline: The sum series of overnight stays was still adult 4% from Sep of final year.
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Last month, Israelis accounted for 1.3 million hotel nights, adult 8% from Sep 2017 and 4% from Sep 2016. The organisation attributed a boost in stays by Israelis to a timing of this fall’s Jewish holidays, that this year fell roughly wholly in September. Last year they were separate between Sep and October.
The Israel Hotel Association forked an accusing finger during foe from companies such as Airbnb, that act as intermediaries in needing tourists to lease out apartments on a short-term basement instead of opting for hotels.
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“The sum prove an boost in a worrying trend of unfamiliar traveller stays during choice lodgings such as Airbnb, a dangerous and rash trend that is building underneath a noses of a authorities, who aren’t doing anything,” a organisation pronounced in anxiety to a miss of law of what a organisation called an “illegal phenomenon.” A year ago, Haaretz reported that there were 8,000 apartments in Tel Aviv alone that were on a marketplace as short-term rentals.
The information for Sep follow hotel organisation sum for Jul and Aug that uncover that unfamiliar traveller accounted for only 31% of Israeli hotel stays during those dual months. Foreign tourism to Israel, however, is increasing. Last year a record 3.6 million tourists visited a country.
Hotel occupancy rates declined altogether final month, that can be attributed to a lift in accessible hotel bedrooms — to 54,400, adult 3% from a year earlier.
On average, hotel occupancy was 60% in September, off 5% compared to a year earlier. The city with a top occupancy rates was Eilat, during 72% final month, followed by Nazareth during 65%, a Dead Sea during 63%, Tel Aviv during 60%, Jerusalem and Haifa during 57%, Tiberias and Herzliya with 55% any and Netanya during 54%.
For a initial 9 months of a year, there were 18.9 million hotel nights during Israeli hotels, an boost of 5% over a initial 9 months of 2017, a Israel Hotel Association reported.