Well this is certainly rich -- Managers of Tourist hotels and commercial entities doing short term rentals, are coming onto Airbnb to complain about little homeowner hosts who aren't signed up with the proper paperwork? !! ? What next, will we see the Hyatt Regency, Marriott and Hilton Hotel chains set up accounts on Airbnb and start complaining about Airbnb hosts renting out a room in their home who are not officially permitted to do short term rentals!!!??
Hyatt Regency Chicago - the REAL Airbnb!! Who knew???
I think a major point is being missed here -- Airbnb began as little people renting rooms in their homes --- the places where they lived. That was the purpose in its founding, and that has been a unique aspect to Airbnb, differentiating it from VRBO or Trivago, or from the Hyatt Regency for that matter. I am not opposed to small hotels or "hosts" (with the name "Manager"?) who run an entire apartment building being listing on Airbnb, if they choose to (though I hope Airbnb has the good taste to not allow Hyatt Regency or Hilton, or any major hotel chain to list rooms on Airbnb) , but owners of such should keep in mind that the kind of commercial business you are running, is not the initial purpose of Airbnb, and it is not how Airbnb presents its offerings/intent. The homeowner host or resident host is what Airbnb has emphasized.
Keep in mind too, that when Brian, Joe and Nate began Airbnb, they started by offering a couch in their rented apartment. Who knows if they even asked their landlord for permission. THey didnt' get a "permit" first. There were no "permits" then. If Brian, Joe and Nate had dutifully gone down to the City Business office or into City Council , to get permission and make sure that they were legal before they started listing their couch, Airbnb would not exist today. It was necessary that some serious momentum in hosting get going first, in order to create a phenomenon, to pressure cities to face up to the modern times by creating regulations that take modern phenomena into account. Cities around the globe are just commencing to respond to this movement by creating modern short term rental regulations which recognize that having paying guests in one's own home was the original and most ancient type of hospitality.
Further, I dont' know about the laws in France where you are, but it should be pointed out that at least in large urban centers in the USA (San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles) which have rent control laws and concerns about protecting housing for long term tenants, when cities create short term rental regulations, they very clearly prohibit doing short term rentals of entire apartments in apartment buildings, of the sort you are doing in France, Manager. Large US Cities tend to create regulations that only allow hosts to do short term rentals in their primary residence, the place they actually live. So ironically, the listings in your region in France which you call illegal, would be legal in San Francisco or New York, and the types of listings you are offering, would be illegal in San Francisco or New York. So it is helpful to keep in mind that circumstances vary, around the globe.
For all these reasons, it is quite inappropriate for large commercial hosts to come onto Airbnb and complain about small time hosts who rent out a room in their home.
Finally, I'd like to issue a request to all hosts, to avoid engaging in any type of "policing" of other hosts or other people's listings. This policing behavior is distasteful, divisive and doesn't help build host community. IN particular, it is offensive for large commerical hosts to be trying to police small hosts who rent out in the home they live in, on Airbnb, but I would prefer that none of us engage in attempts to police and monitor other people's businesses.
The exception being that I think it behooves all of us to protect each other from crimes, by reporting scams and fraud of a criminal nature, where we see that (there are scam listings where fake hosts try to lure in unsuspecting guests to pay outside of Airbnb for instance, or fake guests try to scam hosts to go to phishing sites)