Dec. 24, 2025 5 AM PT
To the editor: Los Angeles is making ready to host a once-in-a-generation world occasion, with practically 150,000 additional visitors expected in the course of the World Cup (“Demand surges for Airbnbs during the World Cup in L.A., with prices jumping 56%,” Dec. 21). The truth is easy: We wouldn’t have sufficient lodge rooms, and there’s no sensible solution 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 want area, kitchens and customary areas — choices lodges can’t at all times present. Brief-term leases additionally permit visitors to remain in neighborhoods that hardly ever profit from main tourism, spreading customer spending extra broadly throughout native companies.
Demand will probably be intense regardless. Increasing lodging choices helps handle pricing stress, retains guests within the area and helps native employees, small companies, owners and the town itself by means of elevated tax income.
This can be 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.
