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2025 to Trump 2024? Turbulence, tech & overtourism travel trends
Reading Time: 12 minutesWorldwide: STRz editor Paul Stevens makes his predictions for the global short-term / vacation rental industry as we edge closer to 2025.
STRz Summit 2024: Charlie Reith, UK STAA
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Charlie Reith, director at the UK Short Term Accommodation Association [STAA], speaks to STRz at the 2024 STRz Summit about his takeaways from the event and why he wanted to attend and participate as a speaker.
Future of short-term let regulation debated in Westminster
Reading Time: 5 minutesUK: The regulation of short-term lets was the subject of a Westminster Hall debate on Thursday [12 September], ahead of the introduction of either a potential statutory registration or licensing scheme, and a bill on the licensing of short-term lets in parliament.
ISCF chair welcomes signing of EU data-sharing regulation
Reading Time: 3 minutesEurope: The Irish Self-Catering Federation [ISCF], the largest representative body for self-catering properties in Ireland, has welcomed the signing of the EU’s regulation on short-term rental data collection and sharing in Brussels as having “positive, long-term consequences for the sector”.
Medellín mayor mooting rental regulation to cut crime
Reading Time: 2 minutesColombia: The Mayor of Medellín Federico Gutiérrez is proposing to regulating short-term apartment rentals in the city.
EU rules edge closer after European Parliament vote
Reading Time: 3 minutesEurope: EU regulation on data collection and sharing relating to short-term accommodation rental services has moved a step closer after a vote in the European Parliament this week.
EU legislation moves step closer after policymakers give green light
Reading Time: 4 minutesEurope: European policymakers have given the green light to proposals to regulate short-term rental platform activity across the bloc, while ensuring that the rules on hosting are simple to understand and implement and proportionate within EU law.
Ministers plot short-term rental legislation in Türkiye
Reading Time: 2 minutesTürkiye: Ministers in Türkiye are planning to introduce tighter regulation for the country’s short-term rental industry, in a bid to ensure equality in competition with hotels and other accommodation providers.
Berlin to start tracking Airbnb listings
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGermany: Commencing March 2023, Airbnb has announced that hosts located in Berlin will require a property registration number for long-term lets. Since 2018, Berlin has required Airbnb hosts to display a registration number on listings advertised on the platform. The same rule also applies for hosts who let more than half of their property. Around […]
Beijing bans vacation rentals close to Forbidden City
Reading Time: < 1 minuteChina: Beijing city authorities have banned ban vacation rental lettings in neighbourhoods near the Forbidden City due to “security concerns”. The city said the new directive, which also places stricter controls on rentals in other parts of the capital, is part of a move to tighten control of short-term apartment rentals across the city and […]