Reading Time: 3 minutesFrance: Marseille City Hall has announced that it will limit short-term rentals at primary residences in the city to 90 nights a year, dropping from the current 120 nights that are permitted.
Reading Time: 3 minutesItaly: The local government in Florence has ordered the removal of self check-in keyboxes / lockboxes at holiday rental properties, effective from today [25 February].
Reading Time: 2 minutesWorldwide: Following the closure of last week’s entries period, attention now turns to the sixth edition of the Shortyz Awards, to be held in London on Tuesday 1 April.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia has said that he plans to donate $15 million worth of factory-built dwellings to support survivors of the recent Los Angeles wildfires.
Reading Time: 3 minutesEurope: The mayors of Madrid and Barcelona debated solutions for the affordability housing crisis in the European Parliament this week.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAustralia: ParkBooker, an independent online travel agent that is aiming to “make camping, holiday and caravan park bookings as easy to discover and book as hotels”, has raised $600,000 in an oversubscribed pre-seed round.
Reading Time: 3 minutesUS: Airbnb has announced that it is suing the City of New Orleans over requirements for all home-sharing platforms including Airbnb to verify that all their listed properties are in compliance with city laws.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIndia: Oravel Stays, the parent company of global hospitality chain OYO, has announced that its European vacation rental brand, DanCenter, is to officially launch in India – the country where OYO is headquartered.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSpain: Lodgify, a vacation rental management platform for independent hosts and property managers, has named Shaun Shirazian as its new CEO to accelerate its next phase of growth and innovation.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAustria / France: Short-term rental software-as-a-service [SaaS] startup Goliday has announced that it has launched in the UK and closed a pre-seed funding round.
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