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Rome plots urgent short-term rental crackdown

Rome

Reading Time: 2 minutesItaly: Rome is planning to crack down on the listing of new short-term rentals and drive further regulations across Italy in a bid to stop the “desertification” of historic towns and cities across the country.

ALTIDO reveals European rebound booking data

ALTIDO reveals European rebound data

Reading Time: 2 minutesEU: Booking data which tracks past and future short-term rental reservations on ALTIDO shows that travel sentiment is increasing with ADR predicted to exceed Q2 2019 rates this year. Data from three of ALTIDO’s key markets (UK, Portugal and Italy) highlight the following trends: • There has been an increase in US travellers visiting the […]

Fairbnb.coop secures €1m for development and growth

Fairbnb.coop

Reading Time: 2 minutesItaly: Ethical holiday rental site Fairbnb.coop has announced that it has raised €1 million in a year-long fundraising campaign set up to accelerate the development and growth of the platform, and build “the future of community-powered tourism”. The campaign, which concluded after the General Assembly of the Fair Bnb Network cooperative, was supported by: Fondo […]

HomeToGo observes travel demand surge for Italy and Spain

HomeToGo

Reading Time: 3 minutesLuxembourg: Alternative accommodation marketplace HomeToGo has released new internal data that demonstrates a significant uptick in global traveller demand for Southern Europe. As pandemic-related travel restrictions have eased throughout the past year, HomeToGo, whose group of brands includes the Italian vacation rental brand Feries [Milan], which operates Agriturismo.it and CaseVacanza.it, and the Spanish brand EscapadaRural [Barcelona], is observing an increase in […]

NUMA Group expands to Italy

NUMA

Reading Time: 2 minutesMilan / Berlin: Short-term rental technology provider and driver of the “commercial living” asset class, NUMA Group [formerly COSI Group], has announced its expansion into Milan and Berlin.  With its international expansion to Italy, NUMA is continuing on its growth path in Europe. Earlier this year, the German company launched in Spain and acquired local property […]

Red Savannah purchases Homebase Abroad

Red Savannah

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK / US / Italy: London-based private villa rental and custom travel company, Red Savannah, has acquired Homebase Abroad, a US-based company specialising exclusively in vacation rentals in the Italian market, for an undisclosed amount. As the deal marks Red Savannah’s first acquisition, Homebase Abroad will transfer all of its bookings to the firm on […]