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Re:Rise of ghost hotels casts pall over Toronto rental market by conanbatt on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @10:30AM (#19728948)
If it only came to the idea of the Toronto government to ban tourism, it would achieve the same effect as reducing airbnb's.
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Re:Rise of ghost hotels casts pall over Toronto rental market by parthdesai on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @11:08AM (#19729355)
Absolutely not true, maybe look into the matter and data first before commenting?
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Re:Rise of ghost hotels casts pall over Toronto rental market by conanbatt on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @12:39PM (#19730270)
What data do you want, that Airbnb is used by tourists?

There's plenty for it: https://www.airbnbcitizen.com/airbnb-shares-new-data-globall...

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Re:Rise of ghost hotels casts pall over Toronto rental market by parthdesai on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @03:22PM (#19731955)
TIL that tourism didn't exist before AirBnB. It's not like Toronto is some scrub city that only saw tourists because of AirBnB.
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Re:Rise of ghost hotels casts pall over Toronto rental market by conanbatt on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @11:40PM (#19735359)
All tourism raises rents. The less tourism, the lower the rents.
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