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Special to Hotel-Online: Airbnb and the Hotel Industry: Takeaway’s from Georgetown University’s Hotel and Lodging Legal Summit
Roland Leiser | November 10, 2016
by Roland Leiser At the 5th annual Hotel and Lodging Legal Summit at Georgetown University's Law Center on October 28, 2016, hotel industry representatives sparred with an Airbnb spokesman over tax collection requirements and other rules that hotels want applied to short-term rentals. The debate didn't add much to what is already known, but it underscored the continuing rift between hotels, which are subject to government regulations and Airbnb-listed properties, which are virtually unregulated. Named the Legal Challenges of a Landscape Changed by the Short-Term Rental Industry, a panel of industry representatives included Troy Flanagan...
Special to Hotel-Online: Takeaway’s from Georgetown University’s Hotel and Lodging Legal Summit on American Hotel Investment in Cuba
Roland Leiser | November 9, 2016
by Roland Leiser A Canadian consultant on Cuba has sought to dispel the notion that investors would encounter official corruption in their negotiations to open hotels. Gregory Biniowsky, an attorney and political science professor at the University of Havana, addressed the 5th annual Georgetown University Hotel and Lodging Legal Summit in Washington, DC Oct. 28. His firm, Gowling WLG, is based in Toronto, but he lives in Havana. "The last thing I want to be is a Cuba cheerleader," but the country is rated "as one of the least corrupt in Latin America" along with Chile, Uruguay and Costa Rica. Cuba's strict code of conduct prohibits an o...
