# Professor Arun Sundararajan weighs in on local governments’ and the hotel industry’s efforts to regulate Airbnb

1 Faculty News October 15, 2018 ![The Washington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031074.jpg?itok=f6OME_Rm)>

Excerpt from [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/political-contests-erupt-as-cities-and-hotel-industry-struggle-to-curb-airbnb/2018/10/15/7819efdc-ce34-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html?utm_term=.761e9c1cf1af) -- "'The real story over the last year or year and a half seems to be the hotel industry waking up to the fact that Airbnb poses a much bigger threat to their business than they originally imagined,' said Arun Sundararajan, a business professor at New York University."

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