Hundreds of closed hotels, under the banner of hotel chains or independent, will house free front-line healthcare staff in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic, while individuals are invited to offer them accommodation on rental platforms tourist.
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From Tuesday, the Airbnb platform offers owners using its services to " provide free whole apartments that are not rented " for " caregivers and social workers on the Appartsolidaire platform ", announced Tuesday the Ministry of Cohesion territories in a press release. The voluntary host will benefit from a compensation of 50 euros " paid by Airbnb for each reservation ", he specifies.
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The Individuals to Individuals site also proposes to put owners in touch with free accommodation and caregivers wishing to " temporarily occupy accommodation near the hospital, " he announced on Tuesday.
As of Saturday, the hoteliers had announced for their part that some " 500 hotels, or more than 20,000 rooms " in France, were mobilizing to accommodate " caregivers, drivers, patients without infectious disease and homeless people ". " Hoteliers have spontaneously expressed their desire to be able to keep hotels open or to reopen them to welcome populations on the front line in this serious health crisis ," said the Union of Hotel Trades and Industries and the Group national hotel chains.
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