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Pain in Spain for Airbnb

2025/6/20
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Gideon Long: 西班牙政府下令Airbnb屏蔽66,000个房源,Airbnb的上诉被驳回。这一行动正值巴塞罗那等热门城市爆发反对大规模旅游的抗议活动,甚至有游客遭到水枪袭击。西班牙政府认为此举有助于解决住房负担能力问题,并应对大规模旅游带来的负面影响。巴塞罗那的游客数量已达到当地人口的十倍,城市压力巨大。 Katie Silver: 西班牙政府要求Airbnb撤下66,000个房源,原因是这些房源违反了相关规定,例如未提供有效的许可证号码或未明确所有者身份。Airbnb对此表示,责任应在于房东而非平台。巴塞罗那计划到2028年关闭所有短期租赁公寓,以应对旅游业带来的住房问题。

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Payne in Spain for Airbnb. Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. I'm Gideon Long, in for Leanna Byrne. Good morning. Holiday rentals giant Airbnb has lost its appeal against the Spanish government, which has ordered the platform to block 66,000 listings from the country. It

It comes as protests against mass tourism pick up in popular cities like Barcelona, with some tourists targeted with water pistols. Here's the BBC's Katie Silver. Last month, Spain's government ordered Airbnb to take down these 66,000 listings. They were flagged for violations such as the owner or the person who was...

advertising the property not including their license number to host short-term rentals or not specifying whether the owner was an individual or company. There's almost 6,000 of them that had to be immediately taken down. Airbnb's lost this appeal and it says that for its part that Spanish regulations hold owners of short-term rentals not the platform as responsible for listing such information. So it's saying that the company therefore shouldn't be at fault. The big question here is about housing affordability. The Spanish government has said that the platform

Thank you.

And this calls for more housing to be built and desires to tackle the unwanted side effects of mass tourism. In terms of some of the numbers, for example, last year Barcelona had more than 15 million visitors. And that's almost 10 times that of the local population. So it's very much feeling the strain. We heard as well last year Barcelona announcing a plan that it was going to close down all of the 10,000 apartments that are licensed in the city at short-term rentals by 2028.

Katie Silver. Greenland has been in the spotlight recently, ever since President Trump said he wanted the autonomous Danish territory to become part of the US. Opinion polls show most Greenlanders don't want that, but officials recognise the benefits of a closer relationship.

Mr Trump signed a minerals agreement with Greenland in his first term. Now Greenland's Minister for Business and Mineral Resources, Nadja Nathanielsen, has told the BBC she wants that deal extended. Maybe the American perspective is a bit different now. They may want to focus on other things such as

critical minerals, which was really not that much in focus in 2019. So I expect that from the American administration side, you're sort of now taking stock of what they need. We are, of course, willing to discuss this and we've been quite happy about the old agreement.

And I think Greenland and the U.S. do have similar goals. We want to develop the mineral sector in Greenland, and the U.S. can be helpful in assisting that. The U.S. do have a lot of skills and competences we want to learn more from and build on. And the U.S. do have capital that is very much needed in Greenland. I think we can agree upon a lot of things.

Let's do the numbers.

Oil prices fell slightly after President Trump said he wouldn't decide on US involvement in the conflict between Israel and Iran for another two weeks. They've recovered slightly. Brent crude is currently trading at around $77 a barrel. And in the UK, retail sales dropped 2.7% last month, way below expectations.

More than two billion pairs of shoes, nearly 60% of them from China, landed in the US last year. Now one US shoemaker is betting on automation to boost domestic production. The BBC's Michelle Fleury has more.

In Portland, Oregon, Keene, famous for its sandals and hiking boots, is taking a different approach. Rising costs in China pushed it to start manufacturing in the US in 2010, a move that's now giving it a competitive edge amid Trump's tariffs, as I discovered when I spoke to the shoemaker's chief operating officer, Harry Perrimal. You're doing already what Donald Trump wants companies to do, which is manufacture here in the United States.

How does that compare with...

production, your experience of manufacturing in other countries? Footwear is a very labor-intensive product to make. It involves a lot of labor. But we are making products here in the USA very economically, very efficiently. And the way we do that is with tons of automation. Traditionally, 80 to 100 people are required in a traditional production line in Asia. And we do that across two shifts with 24 people in the factory here in the U.S.,

Does it cost more to hire American workers versus, say, in some of your other factories and overseas? Absolutely. The labor rates here in the U.S. are very expensive. It is approximately 10 to 12 times more expensive than you would compare to an Asian counterpart. I'm not sure whether we're going to get American workers in large quantities willing to work for shoe company wages in America.

Keen is making a big move, closing its Portland factory and opening a larger one in Kentucky. One way it copes with that higher American labor cost is automation. There are different ways to get around that. One is a smart automation, clean manufacturing processes and thoughtful product design.

And then, you know, the proximity is so powerful. We are closer to our market and our fans. We can reach 80 percent of Americans within two days of ground shipping. And we reduce our carbon footprint and we create American jobs. Is there anything then you would like to see the Trump administration do that you think would help the shoe manufacturing industry come back to America more?

If we can get some help in terms of reducing tariffs for components that are important to make or materials that are important to make shoes here in America, that might help the broader industry. Keen won't raise prices this year, but others facing rising costs and potential job cuts may have no choice but to pass the pain on to consumers. In New York, I'm the BBC's Michelle Flurry for Marketplace.

And in the UK, I'm Gideon Long with the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. Wherever you are, thanks for listening.

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