{"id":32956,"date":"2019-11-15T13:30:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T13:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=32956"},"modified":"2019-11-15T13:30:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T13:30:44","slug":"why-are-people-renting-out-their-luxury-rooms-on-airbnb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/why-are-people-renting-out-their-luxury-rooms-on-airbnb\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are people renting out their luxury rooms on Airbnb?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airbnb has become one of the most popular platforms to book holiday accommodation. It<br \/>\noperates in approximately 81 thousand cities and 191 countries around the world.<br \/>\nAirbnb started as a cheap option to book holiday accommodations, but now it&#8217;s possible to find<br \/>\nbeautiful contemporary homes, treehouses, castles and other extraordinary places in cities and<br \/>\ntowns.<br \/>\nThe platform has changed the way people travel by creating a community that want to have a<br \/>\nmore personal experience with locals.<br \/>\nOn the other hand, Airbnb empowers homeowners to get an income from their houses but why<br \/>\ndo wealthy people decide to monetize their stylish rooms on Airbnb?<br \/>\nI decided to rent a room through Airbnb with Marilyn and Neil in Kent, two hours from London<br \/>\nand find out their story and how they started their Airbnb.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why are people renting out their luxury rooms on Airbnb?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1japq-rTJOo?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Words and video by: Amazonia Arrayo<\/p>\n<p>Feature photo credit: Neil (homeowner)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbnb has become one of the most popular platforms to book holiday accommodation. It operates in approximately 81 thousand cities and 191 countries around the world. Airbnb started as a cheap option to book holiday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":32985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,134,139,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uknews","category-video","category-worldnews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}