Zohran Mamdani has a huge lead in the race to be the next mayor of New York City with an agenda focused on affordability. But the next mayor will also need a strategy for travel and tourism, an industry that fuels local jobs and global visibility.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With just days to go before the election, Mamdani spoke to Skift exclusively about his plans to boost tourism to the city. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Where does Mamdani stand on Airbnb? Short-term rentals have plummeted in NYC since Local Law 18 took effect in September 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And the city will be a key host for the World Cup next summer \u2014 the biggest travel event of the year. How would a Mamdani administration capitalize on it at a time when travel to the U.S. overall has been down?<\/p>\n
This interview has been edited for clarity.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mamdani\u2019s Stance on Airbnb\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rafat Ali: I know you’ve talked about Airbnb and how that intersects with affordability and housing. So what’s your current view on <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani has a huge lead in the race to be the next mayor of New York City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13382,9,56,63,65,64,14769,14770,14771,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-22262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-airbnb","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-ny","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-nyc-headlines","13":"tag-nyc-news","14":"tag-nyc-tourism","15":"tag-trump-effect","16":"tag-world-cup","17":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}