Hello Andrea
Thank you for your answer, it was with expected content i'll add, so i'd like you to consider the following.
We all have our life experience to take into account. I said i have my own properties, i am a family man too, older family now hence my travelling. It might be that some host on here is actually subletting my homes on airbnb, i haven't checked, against the contract i might add. I'm a long term travelling guest with airbnb, but not because i am poor and have no idea about host costs or owning properties. The cost of multiple people vs one is well known to me.
If we delve into the cost of a single person, it varies enormously, with the time of the year as much as with their lifestyle. People who stay in your place (assuming it's your place and you have the right to sublet) working on their laptops all day, then watch tv during the evening, cook their own meals, will use more electricity, gas and water than those who leave it in the morning, come back at 4am with a random partner, sleep together, then both part ways to be off to work in time.
Honestly, this is very much nitpicking, and to request that a guest needs to ask permission and pay money everytime someone shares a bed and towel with them is as noted an undiginified proposition. That it doubles the cost of utilities is well wide of the mark since equally it could halve your costs depending on how that person lives their lives. In this thread the words "bad guest" is somewhat overstepping.
You mentioned commercial establishments. They pay commercial rates, own huge buildings and employ lots of staff, charge similar prices for rooms as hosts do, often less actually, are subject to much stricter regulation than airbnb hosts are (and yet many hosts are indeed commercial establishments too), which includes having to have fire extinguishers, gas masks, legal standard signage etc, local government approval, well, they almost always allow two people at no extra charge (except say for breakfast). I say "almost always" since the closest you'll get to the pimp tax being prosposed is in places in high prostitution areas which display signage stating they charge money for prostitutes to enter their hotels with guests, think thailand. I don't think we should have airbnb behaving like pimps.
Second guests which require excta bedding i'd charge for, but not where bedding is shared (that's the same as with hotels). Personally if i were a host i'd always supply a second set of everything such as towels and toothbrushes as i would want my guests to be comfortable. Just because there is an option on airbnb to charge extras doesn't mean you have to tick the box. If a host worries more about the extra euro a second guest cost them today, rather than the 50 euros they made, consider that they'd not likely have made the 50 euro in the first place were it not for the "bad" guest.
As for the cost of a second guest, we can discuss costs of the first too, such as the cleaning fee? You don't need to answer because i get it. In china the cleaner costs about 4000 yuan a month and does all your properties for that, including the one you live in, and yet the airbnb hosts there often charge 200 to 300 yuan for the cleaning cost even if you stay one night.
If you read the entire post, many thanks 🙂