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    BE MY GUEST

    Dec 05, 2019 3 minutes
    WORDS TRACEY INGRAM
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    IRINA BOERSMA
    It’s the holiday season, which means you might be reading this from the comfort of someone else’s home.

    erhaps you once booked hotel or motel rooms, but now choose to stay in Airbnbs instead. According to ‘Economic effects of Airbnb in New Zealand’, a 2018 report by Deloitte, “578,000 stays were booked with Airbnb around New Zealand in 2017. Hosts accommodated 1.4 million guests for around 1.5 million nights in towns and cities across the nation – translating to 3.7 million guest nights.”

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