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Airbnb is Rolling Out New Screening Tools to Stop Parties

מאמר באנגלית לתרגול קריאה. כולל 5 מילים חדשות עם תרגום לעברית, 3 שאלות הבנת הנקרא, 5 שאלות לשיחה. מתאים למתקדמים.

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The company claims it will employ new methods to identify and block users who attempt to host a party using Airbnb's short-term rental service. The business claimed to have developed technology that looks at the prospective tenant's history on Airbnb, the distance between their current location and the rental property, whether they plan to stay for a weekday or a weekend, and other things.

According to Airbnb, the screening process it is implementing for listings in the US and Canada has been tested since last October in some Australian regions, where it led to a 35% decrease in unregistered parties. The San Francisco-based company said that the technology is intended to stop a customer's reservation request from ever getting to the host of the relevant property. People who cannot rent a full home may be able to reserve a single room instead because the host is more likely to be present, according to Airbnb.

Since a Halloween house party in a neighborhood of San Francisco culminated in a shooting that left five people dead in 2019, Airbnb has come under increasing pressure to crack down on parties. The year after, Airbnb established a global ban on parties at its listings and a requirement that anybody under 25 rent a whole property nearby only if they had a history of favorable reviews on the website. Initially intended as a temporary public health measure for the duration of the pandemic, the party ban was made permanent in June.

מילים חדשות מהטקסט

  • Prospective /prəsˈpɛktɪv/ adjective לְעַתִיד

    likely to happen

    The new law has many prospective benefits.

  • Relevant /ˈrɛlɪvənt/ adjective רלוונטי

    relating to a subject in an appropriate way

    The ideas and observations expressed in the book are still relevant today.

  • Host /həʊst/ noun מנחה

    a person (especially a man) who is entertaining guests socially or as a job

    We were greeted at the front door by our host.

  • Culminated /ˈkʌlmɪneɪtɪd/ verb הגיע לשיא

    to reach the end or the final result of something

    The investigation culminated with several arrests.

  • Crack down /kræk daʊn/ verb לפצח

    to start dealing with bad or illegal behavior in a more severe way

    The libraries crack down on people who lose their books

שאלות לשיחה

אין כאן תשובה נכונה — אלה שאלות לתרגול דיבור, לבד או מול מורה.

  1. Is Airbnb popular in your country?
  2. What are the things you usually consider when booking accommodation?
  3. Do you think Airbnb’s system will be able to fully prevent unauthorized parties? Why or why not?
  4. Why do you think some customers prefer Airbnb to hotels?
  5. What do you think are the cons of renting an Airbnb listing?

בדקו את עצמכם

3 שאלות. בחרו תשובה וקבלו בדיקה מיד.

  1. How will Airbnb identify and block users who attempt to host a party using their short-term rental service?

  2. By how much was the decrease in unregistered parties in the screening process last October?

  3. When was the party ban made permanent?

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