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Questions  1) How was an Internet startup able to disrupt the hotel industry, long dominated by giants such as Marriott and Hilton, which took decades to become successful worldwide hospitality chains? Explain

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1) How was an Internet startup able to disrupt the hotel industry, long dominated by giants such as Marriott and Hilton, which took decades to become successful worldwide hospitality chains? Explain. 
2. Why is it that PESTEL factors can have such a strong impact on the future of a business? Do you support legis-lation such as that passed in New York (and elsewhere), or do you think it has more to do with protecting vested interests such as the hotel industry? 
3. Citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Airbnb is challenging the New York law and others in the United States, arguing that it merely operates a digital marketplace, and thus is not responsible for the con-tent that users place on its site. Do you think Airbnb has a strong argument? Why or why not? 
4. Are you concerned that the concept of the sharing economy could be abused by unscrupulous "entrepreneurs" and thus give the entire novel concept a bad reputation? Why or why not? Explain. 
 

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hosts with multiple offerings in the same city. Commercial landlords realized quickly that it is more profitable to convert some apartments into short-term rentals and to offer them via Airbnb than to sign long-term rentals with just one ten-ant, which often fall under some form of rent control. Al-though this tactic increases the landlord's return on investment and profits, it creates all kinds of negative exter-nalities. Neighbors complain about noisy tourists partying all night. Some apartments get ransacked or are used for illegal activities such as drug deals and prostitution. New Yorkers expressed their frustration by scrawling on Airbnb posters: "The dumbest person in your building is passing out keys to your front door!"48 Hotel chains and resort owners have challenged Airbnb in courts and lobbied local governments to pass regulations to limit or prohibit short-term rentals—some of which already have. Residents in New York City, San Francisco, Berlin, Paris, and many other cities have joined this lobby, arguing that companies like Airbnb contribute to a shortage of afford-able housing because they turn entire apartment complexes into hotels and quiet family neighborhoods into daily, all-night party venues. Airbnb is also being criticized for accelerating gentrification in some cities.