Airbnb, the online house rental giant might be worth €27 billion but the company only paid €70,000 in tax in France last year, according to reports in the French press.
A French association of hotel and tourism companies said on Thursday it had filed a complaint with Paris prosecutors against websites that offer private holiday rentals, such as Airbnb, for unfair competition.
A group of friends who rented a house on Airbnb for a party weekend in a French town discovered the decomposing body of a woman in the garden, police said Sunday.
The French government is mulling over a new report that lists 19 propositions to make the shared economy in France less “lawless” and to ensure the tax man is getting what he is owed.
Homeowners on the Ile Saint-Louis in central Paris, which has some of the city's most expensive real estate, are being kept in style by Airbnb rentals, a survey showed Thursday.
Some 3.9 million travellers have used Airbnb to visit France in the past year with the director of Airbnb for France claiming this contributed €2.4 billion to the French economy. But controversy continues to dog the firm.
Parisian designer Zoé de Las Cases wants to take legal action against online accommodation service Airbnb claiming the company copied the design of her apartment for their own company headquarters without giving her the credit.
Luxury hotels in Paris have taken a beating this year, with the January terrorist attacks scaring off visitors and websites like Airbnb stealing away clients. But has the lure of the "palaces" faded away for good?
For Halloween, the home rental website Airbnb is offering brave travellers a night in the sprawling tunnels filled with skulls and bones that is one of Paris's most popular -- and ghoulish -- attractions
The head of France's hoteliers union (UMIH) has fired a warning to Airbnb telling The Local that the suffering hotel industry will "go hard" after the room sharing website in a bid to level out "unfair competition".
Holiday rental site Airbnb will from Thursday start charging users in Paris a tourist tax as it bids to keep the French government off its back. The levy could raise millions of euros for Paris.
The home-sharing website Airbnb has taken over Paris like no other city in the world and now it is even giving the capital’s famed deluxe hotels a run for their money.
French hoteliers have taken action against holiday accommodation options such as Airbnb, penning an open letter to the prime minister urging him to even out the competition.
Holiday rental websites in France, such as the popular Airbnb, will soon have to collect a visitors tax – taxe de séjour – from users under new rules set to be passed this week.
A new report into tourist accommodation in France has raised doubts about the legality of the popular accommodation rental site Airbnb. It comes after one Frenchman was fined €2,000 for illegally subletting his apartment on the site.
Tenants in France might want to think twice before they consider using rental sites such as Airbnb to boost their income after a Parisian was recently fined €2,000 for illegally sub-letting his apartment on the website.
