Chairman Yossi Dagan of the Shomron (Samaria) Regional Council has called Airbnb's decision to remove the lodgings of Judea and Samaria from its listings "a shocking and criminal anti-Semitic decision. However, neither the Airbnb site nor the BDS [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel -ed.] will determine the future of Samaria and the future of tourism in Samaria."
Dagan countered, "Samaria will continue to record growth rates of the highest in the Western world. Tourism in Samaria, including world tourism, has grown by 200% in the past two years and will continue to grow. Only last week hundreds of tourists from Central and South America arrived in Samaria and tourists continue to arrive this week from all over the world. This decision only reinforces us to invest even more in incoming tourism both from Israel and from [around] the world."