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I have to take issue with your assertion about hotel staff being unionized (although I recognize that could be true for your region). I've worked in hotels before and the reason they stay "cheap" is because they pay the cleaning and non-customer-facing staff the absolute bare minimum.

I'm coming from Midwestern America which certainly colors this experience, but in my case the housekeeping staff was made up almost exclusively of non-native English speakers. They were paid minimum, or close to it, and had room quotas that left them with 15-20 to "clean" a room.

On the events side of the business, the guys who set up tables and chairs were almost exclusively young, poor black men. The hotel only ran the air conditioning in those ballrooms when guests were present so it was regularly 80-85 f in those rooms with minimum wage staff doing manual labor.

Please understand I don't have any love for the investment vehicle model that has taken over air-bnb, but hotels are by far the most disgusting socioeconomic workplace I've been in. I really don't have the money for air-bnb, but I'll certainly take some person paying off their rental over large corporation exploiting unskilled workers and immigrants.

Maybe in your country. Here in France AirBnB are both cheaper and the rooms are nicer than hotel. Some of them could be landlords and profit.. but some others rent something that would not be fitting as a location (like a vacation flat or a subpart of a house) but is OK for staying just a couple of days.

So I disagree heavily with your generalisation

In Montreal an Airbnb cought fire and killed 6 guests and one tenant because the owner converted a house to multiple Airbnb ignoring all regulation (including fire marshal rules)

English article https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/old-montreal-fire-airbnb-1.6801216

The french media had some follow up stories describing the owner total lack it respect for regulation. The province ended up banning Airbnbs but I don't know the details of the bag