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Airbnb bans hosts from requiring major chores like dishwashing and bed-stripping under new rules
The accommodation platform updates its global policy to limit tasks requested from travelers, responding to long-standing complaints about paying cleaning fees while doing manual work.
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The essentials of this story
- What happened
- Airbnb updated its global guidelines to limit the household chores that hosts can ask travelers to perform.
- Who is affected
- Airbnb guests and property hosts worldwide.
- What changes
- Hosts can no longer require tasks like stripping beds or washing dishes, and must limit requests to reasonable house rules.
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Sources
- Airbnb guests freed from chores involving ‘significant effort’ under new global rules — The Guardian — negócios