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'Anti-party' policy launched by Airbnb to block ‘disruptive’ summer holiday bookings
As 45.1 million Americans travel for summer holidays, Airbnb's "anti-party" measures target potentially disruptive party locations, focusing on high-risk bookings.
"Our anti-party technology is designed to help identify and prevent certain attempts to book one-to-two-night stays in entire home listings that could be higher risk for a disruptive party," said the release. These can include excessive noise, visitors, trash, smoking and parking nuisances, trespassing and vandalism — as well as advertising listings using "party-friendly" or "event-friendly" terminology. Airbnb told Fox News Digital on Tuesday, "These measures announced this week are specifically for Memorial Day and July 4 weekends.
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