Airbnb Inc. is pressing ahead with plans to expand into new travel services including restaurant reservations and city tours, transforming the company from a single-minded home-rental service to a multipurpose trip planner. The company is testing a standalone mobile app for finding and organizing travel plans, highlighting the importance of the initiative to the company.

Here is a very bad piece of news for hotels: Airbnb is hurting them on their most profitable nights…

A prime focus is the $500 million sharing economy, which includes services provided through companies such as Airbnb and Uber. Deloitte Access …

The federal government’s key tax adviser and the Australian Taxation Office have launched a fresh assault on the burgeoning cash economy, including considering sanctions for people who operate outside the tax system built up around technology disrupters Airbnb and Uber…

Online home rental sites such as Airbnb might be good for travelers, but many cities complain that they drive up prices and take away housing for residents. Berlin recently banned short-term rentals. Barcelona’s mayor plans to stop people from letting out their homes on websites without a license. Airbnb’s No. 1 destination is Paris. And […]

The rules are quite clear: If you rent a bed in the city of Dallas, you owe the city of Dallas some money — what’s called a hotel occupancy tax. That means everyone: “hotels, motels, bed & breakfasts and short-term vacation rentals,” according to City Hall. And that includes people who rent out rooms or apartments or whole houses […]

One day, homes might come with Airbnb rooms built right in. According to a new report from The Information, a tech industry news site, the room rental company is thinking about how to convince home-builders to create properties that have extra rooms included especially for being rented out…

Authorities in Barcelona have stepped up a crackdown on homes illegally rented out to tourists via homesharing websites such as Airbnb  AIRBNB 0.00% , ordering hundreds to be removed from listings and hitting firms with a fine, while threatening more in the future…

Aug 11 Online home-rental marketplace Airbnb paid less than 70,000 euros ($77,000) in taxes in France in 2015, 18 percent less than the previous year, even though Paris is the company’s most popular destination, French newspaper Le Parisien reported on Thursday. Multinational companies can lower tax payments by using subsidiaries in countries where corporate tax rates […]

The Scranton Zoning Board on Wednesday rejected a couple’s appeal to continue renting out rooms at their upscale Green Ridge home through intermediary Airbnb…