Swede Airbnb hosts are unwittingly leasing their homes to pimps and prostitutes, who have discarded hotels to make Airbnb listings a venue for their criminal acts, police said.
It's evaluated that somewhere in the range of 200 apartment are presently being utilized by whores each day within the Swedish capital.
Second-hand lofts are currently the biggest business sector for prostitution in Stockholm, according to Stockholm police investigator Simon Häggström.
An ever increasing amount, pimps are making fake profiles of couples looking for transient loft rentals.
Individuals are guileless. They ought to think about some more about who they lease to second hand, Häggström said.
Prostitutes and their customers are very favorable to their movement to Airbnb.
"I would say it might be a result of the police's big push to train hotel staff - so that's out as an option," said Pye Jakobsson, a spokeswoman for Rose Alliance Sweden, which campaigns for the rights of sex workers.
Jakobsson told The Local that leasing Airbnb is regularly the best alternative for some working ladies who would prefer not to hazard hookups at a random person's place or bring business into their homes.
"You don't want to work from home as that means risking to lose your apartment and outcalls (working at a stranger's home) some feel is riskier than in-calls," she said.
A rep for Airbnb said the company is doing its best to find prostitution from its rentals.
"We have a zero tolerance policy for issues like these," as indicated by the representative. More than 70 million visitors have remained focused and issues for hosts and visitors are staggeringly uncommon. "When we are made aware of issues, we work fast to help take care of hosts and guests and permanently remove bad actors from our community."
