How Secure is Airbnb for Travelers?

What is Airbnb All About?

The rise of Airbnb, the on-line residence rental company, is obviously a success. Greater than 50 million guests have actually rented lodging via the website which, are monster numbers given that it was released to the public in 2008. There are now more than 1.5 million listings on the website today.

 

With that development comes a significant inquiry of safety and security as it should when something grows this quickly. We've all heard the tales of Airbnb visitors trashing rental residential properties or disturbing the neighbors. But now a terrible story from an Airbnb traveler which claims his host secured him in his area of the rental and also sexually abused him. This story of course has people rethinking the use of this service because of incidents like this...Is it safe...It it secure and is the savings worth the risk when you are dealing with an unfamiliar person that you are staying with for the short term.

 

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