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Debate erupts around short-term rentals in Hawaii as hotels estimate 30,000 illegal rentals
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: An Oxford study set fire to a debate between short-term rental and hotel lobbies around tourism and Hawaii’s housing crisis.
Hawaii governor says he will remove 10,000 vacation rentals from the market
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Governor Josh Green has claimed that the State will move 10,000 homes from the vacation rental market to long-term housing for local families.
Maui County Council advances bill to phase out thousands of short-term rentals
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Maui County Council has advanced a proposed measure that would phase out thousands of short-term vacation rentals across the island, moving forward a contentious plan designed to boost the supply of long-term housing. Councillors voted 5-3 to approve the amended version of Bill 9 on first reading, setting up a final vote for 15 […]
Maui panel passes bill to curb short-term rentals after Lahaina wildfire
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHawaii: A Maui County Council committee passed a bill this week to phase out thousands of short-term vacation rentals in response to housing shortages following last year’s Lahaina wildfire. Bill 9, which advanced in a 6-3 vote on Thursday, will eliminate more than 7,000 short-term rental units across the island by 2028 in West Maui […]
Hawaii introduces tourist “green tax” for climate change resilience
Reading Time: 2 minutesHawaii: A new law, Act 96, will impose a “green tax” on tourists to help safeguard Hawaii’s natural ecosystems from the growing impacts of climate change.
Bills advance in Hawaii to leave uncertain STR future
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Short-term rentals could be phased out entirely in counties across Hawaii if two bills that are currently moving through state legislature are passed.
Hyatt to debut Homes & Hideaways vacation rental platform
Reading Time: 3 minutesUS: Global hospitality company Hyatt Hotels Corporation has announced plans to introduce a new short-term vacation rental platform – Homes & Hideaways by World of Hyatt – “in the coming weeks”.
STR industry unites to support those affected by Hawaii wildfires
Reading Time: 3 minutesUS: The short-term rental industry is uniting to support people affected by the deadly wildfires in Hawaii last week.
2023 Short Stay Week interviews: John An, TechTape
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS / Spain: John An, founder and CEO of TechTape, speaks to STRz at the 2023 Short Stay Week in Barcelona about addressing pain points and tech fragmentation in the industry, how regulation is driving advocacy efforts, and his reasons for attending the event.
AirDNA: US short-term rental industry thrived in record year in 2021
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: The December review released by short-term rental data and analytics provider, AirDNA, shows that 2021 was the best ever year for short-term rentals in the United States, ending well despite a slight dip in the demand growth from 2019 in December [+12.9 per cent vs. +14.3 per cent in November], as the Omicron variant made […]