Airbnb is marketed as a community-driven alternative to hotels, offering “live like a local” experiences across millions of listings. In practice, it has turned residential homes into ghost hotels, worsened affordability, and contributed to mass evictions in cities from Barcelona to Vancouver. Platforms like Inside Airbnb and Fairbnb Canada document how ordinary renters are priced out while corporate landlords profit.
For travelers, a booking means directly supporting displacement, gentrification, and illegal settlements. In Palestine, hundreds of Airbnb listings are located on stolen land, generating profit for settlers and normalizing apartheid. Choosing to boycott Airbnb is one way to resist housing exploitation at home and occupation abroad.
Airbnb earns a High Impact rating for its role in land-based extraction and active complicity in Israeli apartheid. Its listings in illegal settlements directly profit from land theft and war crimes, while its reversal of de-listing decisions under pressure shows systemic complicity, not corporate error. Globally, Airbnb reshapes housing markets, displaces residents, and exploits legal loopholes, tying local economies to extractive tourism.
Fairbnb
Ecobnb
Kindred
Landfolk
And, good old hotels, motels, RV parks, homestays.