Airbnb promises to combat sex work in rentals during Paris Games

France has warned of a 'heightened risk' of short-term location rentals being utilized for enactment enactment during the Games. Photo: VALERY HACHE / AFP/File
Source: AFP

Airbnb connected Friday agreed with French authorities to measurement up the combat against rentals connected its level being utilized for enactment enactment during the Paris Olympics this summertime and beyond.

The location rental level signed a normal with MIPROF, a authorities organisation tasked with protecting women from violence, and warring quality trafficking, the French assemblage said.

"Although specified incidents are uncommon compared to the fig of reservations, Airbnb commits, done this semipermanent collaboration, to supporting efforts made by the industry and the authorities to enactment an extremity to exploitation and quality trafficking," the level said successful a connection sent to AFP, saying it would wage adjacent attraction to the imaginable usage of rented homes for enactment work.

Among efforts to rise consciousness among renters, Airbnb and MIPROF said they had compiled a "guide for the liable traveller" to assistance them recognise signs of exploitation oregon quality trafficking going connected successful the gathering oregon neighbourhood wherever they are staying.

MIPROF said it would dispatch teams to assistance Airbnb, which successful crook promised to fortify its practice with constabulary and the judiciary.

"This normal with Airbnb is major, fixed its cardinal presumption successful the tourism industry," MIPROF's secretary-general, Roxana Maracineanu, was quoted arsenic saying successful the statement.

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Maracineanu, a erstwhile sports minister, had already warned astatine the extremity of past twelvemonth that determination was a "heightened risk" of quality trafficking during the Olympics, and that the authorities needed to nonstop a "clear and beardown message" to traffickers.

Hotels were already vigilant concerning prostitution connected their premises, she told AFP successful December. She said the interest was "prostitution successful homes, wrong apartments".

Police successful respective countries person identified a penchant by enactment workers and pimps for short-term rentals, including connected Airbnb, due to the fact that they connection much discretion than hotels.

Although prostitution remains ineligible successful France, the acquisition of intersexual services was criminalised successful 2016, allowing for the prosecution of clients. Pimping and brothels person been amerciable for decades.

Source: AFP