The vacation home rental market, particularly Airbnb, needs to carry its load by way of taxation and promoting The Bahamas in the same ways the hotel industry does, Bahamas Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) President Carlton Russell asserted yesterday.

“The hotels with their partners like the Nassau Paradise Island Promotion Board are aggressively going out there to increase airlift, and a great percentage of those seats are being eaten up by Airbnb; we need them to carry their load as well. I think particularly from a hotel standpoint and leveling the playing field we need to regulate that industry,” he told Guardian Business.

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