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Perhaps the best-known example of a company in this field is Airbnb – an American web business which allows you to rent out your spare room to holidaymakers. It says it operates in 34,000 cities and it has 800,000 listings of rooms and apartments.
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A British company is doing something with parking spaces. JustPark’s founder, Anthony Eskinaizi, says, “when I had the original idea, I spotted a driveway close to a sports stadium. It would have been so convenient if I could have just parked in the driveway rather than in a commercial car park.”
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Around 20,000 people have advertised their spaces on the website, and he says around half a million drivers use it.
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They are people who run things like traditional hotels and commercial car parks. They are afraid of ending up losing money.
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Regulations for these new businesses are unclear. How will renting out your driveway affect your neighbour? Because this a new business world, those rules aren’t there yet.
A. And there is another problem.
B. A commercial car park is inconvenient.
C. And his great idea has proved a success.
D. But the new business of renting has its competitors.
E. They seem to have occupied the majority of the market.
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