Paris, 14 Nov (EFE) .- The Airbnb platform announced today that it will limit from 2018 the rental of private homes located in the center of Paris to 120 days a year, after which the City Council denounced a reduction in the offer of apartments for residents.

In a statement, Airbnb explained that this limit will be activated automatically from the next January 1, and justified "to promote responsible and sustainable tourism" and to combat fraud.

It will affect the owners of apartments located only in the four first districts of the French capital (there are 20 in total), the most central.

Professionals or hoteliers using the Airbnb platform will not be subject to this rule, that in that case they will have to declare themselves as such and complete a special form.

The American company has already applied this procedure in other cities such as London or Amsterdam.

"We know that the automatic limitation of the number of overnight stays is an effective tool that avoids abuses, and that at no cost to the community," he said. director of the French subsidiary, Emmanuel Marill.

Airbnb, which ensures that its activity has generated 1,700 million euros in Paris and contributed to 30,600 jobs, proposed this initiative the past month of January in reaction to the pulse that maintained with the City council.

The Consistory directed by the hispanofrancesa Anne Hidalgo accused him of having caused that 20,000 apartments they left the residential rental market, turned into tourist accommodations, more lucrative.