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Like other tourist destinations, Honolulu passed a law to hold booking platforms accountable for illegal listings. But the city hasn’t cited any company, even as illegal rentals flourish.
Honolulu’s law was meant as a compromise between short ... Takeuchi Apuna acknowledged that it’s challenging to combat illegal vacation rentals. But she contended that the law holding ...
For years, illegal vacation rental owners seemed to knew that it was hard to catch them and the fines wouldn’t be significant ...
the Honolulu City Council decided in 2019 to target not only the operators of those rentals, but the websites that brought them customers. Under the city’s law, Airbnb and other short-term rental ...
Airbnb has an ambitious new plan to help you book anything. It's using celebs like Patrick Mahomes, but I'm not quite sure that makes sense.
The deadly Maui wildfire disaster displaced 5,000 people and has now left Hawaiʻi with the dubious distinction of having the ...