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Banned by your travel company? Here's what you can do

Travel companies are creating blacklists of their worst customers. But you can fight back.

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Christopher Elliott
Dec 17, 2023
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One day, Erin Mahoney was a customer in good standing with Airbnb. The next day, she was blacklisted.

First, her husband Dominic received an email saying he was banned for a "privacy violation" during a recent stay. And then she was, too.

"There was no explanation," says Mahoney, a community organizer from New York. "Airbnb w…

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