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[Rom1726]

Can I edit what appears in this list?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

@Rom1726  Unfortunately not. But it's one of the many ephemeral features that will likely be replaced in a few months with some other shiny object.

[Rom1726]

Thanks for the very quick reply Andrew.  This category includes a "Top places" entry that I find personally and morally repugnant and it makes me want to close my Airbnb listing on principle. "Mona" may be popular but everything about the place and its owner is completely contemptible. I'll see what options I have at this point but I am not even remotely amused.

[Anonymous]

@Rom1726  Your listing isn't visible in your profile so I can't really see the places that appear on it or what the basis of your objection would be.

But whatever it is, the entries are supposedly aggregated from Guidebook recommendations from other hosts in your area. You can, of course, make your own Guidebook so your guests know which local businesses you personally endorse. But my experience is that very few guests ever even so much as notice these features - they use Airbnb to find a place to stay, and pay little attention to the other stuff. So I'd have to wonder what principle would be served by closing your listing.

[Helen350]

@Anonymous @Rom1726  I assume, (having googled) that the offending visiting attraction advertised by the bots is the Mona  'Art' Museum in Tasmania ....

@Rom1726 - You have my sympathy; I too would object to such anti-art being promoted on my listing, if I lived nearby. (Andrew, you moved to Berlin(!); You probably LOVE that sort of thing! - No offence intended, forgive me if I've presumed too much!)

[Anonymous]

@Helen350  Ha! There I was imagining the objection was to a strip club or a neo-Nazi biker bar...all this fuss is really just over a museum??!

I did move to Berlin - that says nothing more about my personal taste in art than my taste in food (I can't even be in the same room as a Currywurst).  But it's a huge leap from having a distaste for contemporary art to having a moral objection to it. I can't comment on the artistic merits of any exhibition that I haven't experienced - and I don't think you really can either - but that's well beside the point.

From what I gather in a few seconds of Googling, the museum is by far the biggest art-related attraction in Tasmania, so regardless of any mention from Airbnb, any host that lives near it is already profiting from its existence. @Rom1726  Rather than sabotaging your business for no sensible reason, why not recommend some lesser-known cultural attractions so that your visitors have a more well-rounded impression of the local art scene (and make up their own minds about how they feel about it)?

[Helen350]

Mmmmm..... Currywurst.... I  love it!! 🌭

@Anonymous 

[Anonymous]

@Helen350 If you bring a Currywurst into the Help Forum I'm gonna have to hide in the Host Circle until you finish it. 🦨

[Rom1726]

My objections to that "museum" are broad. Its built on the profits of gambling, (profit based on greed, gullibility and addiction and suffering), and the owner wants to set up a "high roller" casino to further the community damage. The "art" includes highly offensive pieces including an exhibit of plaster casts of female genitalia, (Though we had got past that), and the annual festivals associated with this place usually include highly offensive material, including the needless slaughter of animals. If you discount all that, since Covid 19, Mona has had a massive searchlight projecting up into the night sky on a weekly basis. I live in the country and run an observatory so this is something I cant escape, even 30 kilometres away. Apart from the fact that its blatant  light pollution, it also disrupts bird migration and undoubtedly is killing millions of insects. In short, ecological terrorism. Why would I want to promote that business in any way shape or form?

[Anonymous]

@Rom1726  The plaster cast exhibit you refer to immediately reminded me of the "sexhibition" scene in "Fleabag," and a scene between Olivia Colman and Phoebe Waller-Bridge that had perhaps the single most uncomfortably hilarious moment of TV comedy I've ever seen. That particular medium in installation art dates back to the late 1960s and is a bit overused; I think that brilliant TV show finally laid it to rest.

But you know what? Unless you're declining bookings from guests that don't share your peculiar worldview, a lot of the people who stay in your home are going to have some interest in cultural stuff that you don't personally approve of. If you offer an interactive guest experience, you'll have plenty of opportunities to discuss your ethical objections to the museum's environmental interventions. But your guests have every right to decide for themselves which attractions they want to visit in your area - including ones that aren't to your personal taste. Why does it have to be such a problem that options which obviously interest a lot of people are suggested?

[Rom1726]

Anyhow this is getting off topic. I would just like to be able to turn this feature off and will suggest it to Airbnb as a definite enhancement of the site. Thanks for you input.