They will offer tourist rentals at Rockefeller Center in New York – 30/04/2019

The rental portal houses and rooms Airbnb has announced an agreement with a real estate agency New York, United States, to offer accommodation in some of its properties, starting with the iconic Rockefeller Center.

According to the companies, Airbnb will occupy 10 floors of one of the towers of the complex, in which he will install tourist apartments with a view at some of the city's most famous buildings, such as nearby St. Patrick's Cathedral or the Empire State Building.

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The technology company was found in New York and other cities, with a significant resistance to its business model, which in some cases went against local regulations.

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In the Big Apple, the authorities have approved in recent years measures to stop the expansion of Airbnb and, especially, companies that used this platform to operate illegal and illegal hotels.

The company has tried to diversify its activities, by approaching the conventional tourism marketfor example with the purchase of HotelTonight's last-minute hotel reservation website.

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The rents at 75 Rockefeller Plaza will be the first fruit of the agreement between Airbnb and the real estate company RXR Realty, owner of thousands of properties in New York, a pact that has yet to be approved definitively.

"RXR and Airbnb offer a travel experience that immerses visitors in a vibrant and growing community in the heart of the Rockefeller Center, very different from anything else that is on the market," said the executive director of the Rockefeller Center. real estate, Scott Rechler.

Airbnb explained to them that with these new spaces, they hoped that everyone could "experience an authentic New York experience."

RXR took control of the 75 Rockefeller Plaza in 2012 and converted a large part of the building by renting offices, but also by reserving space for eventual hotel use, which is now taking shape.

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The 129-meter tower was built in the 1940s to house the headquarters of the Standard Oil Company. She was later occupied by Time Warner and other large companies..

In total, RXR has more than 6,000 homes and hundreds of thousands of square meters of commercial space in New York.

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