Colosseum controversy: Airbnb and ‘Gladiator II’ team up for battles in historic site

A criticized Airbnb deal will let users play gladiator in Rome's Colosseum...

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00:30From our point of view, this advertising operation is a scoundrel, because today AirBnB, Buggy,

00:47which is the main platform for short-term rentals, are literally hunting people, not only

00:55from the city center, but also from semi-peripheral and peripheral neighborhoods, because they

00:59are in the process of gentrification, I would say now, of touristification, they are literally

01:05squandering the prices of the rentals and people no longer know how to rent the house, not

01:11only, but we are at the point where the price of the house is not only high, but even

01:15there is no longer the apartment, there is no longer the property available.

01:19It is a piece of the territory, so you start to touch even the sacred monuments, such as

01:25here in Rome, obviously it is something that must make us reflect, it is a bit worrying,

01:30but I believe that it is a solution if all people are involved, all representatives,

01:37I believe that in the end it always works out.