To the editor: Los Angeles is getting ready to host a once-in-a-generation world occasion, with almost 150,000 extra guests anticipated in the course of the World Cup (“Demand surges for Airbnbs in the course of the World Cup in L.A., with costs leaping 56%,” Dec. 21). The fact is straightforward: We shouldn’t have sufficient resort rooms, and there’s no sensible approach to construct new ones in time.
A profitable World Cup requires a full vary of lodging choices to satisfy completely different traveler wants and budgets. Many guests journey as households or teams and wish area, kitchens and customary areas — choices lodges can not all the time present. Quick-term leases additionally enable visitors to remain in neighborhoods that hardly ever profit from main tourism, spreading customer spending extra broadly throughout native companies.
Demand might be intense regardless. Increasing lodging choices helps handle pricing strain, retains guests within the area and helps native staff, small companies, owners and town itself by way of elevated tax income.
It is a main alternative to showcase Los Angeles — and guarantee the advantages are broadly shared by lodges, hosts and common Angelenos alike.
JC Lacey, Los Angeles
This author is president of the Crenshaw Chamber of Commerce.
