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In order to ensure fairness and stimulate competition, the European Commission has recently presented a series of draft rules regulate short-term rentals to tourists and help authorities ensure balanced tourism development.
The recommendations include requiring online platforms such as Airbnb and Booking.com to automatically share data on the number of nights rented and guests with authorities once a month.
At the same time, EU states are urged to monitor the implementation of the rules and impose penalties for non-compliance.
“The proposed new rules will help improve transparency in the identification and activity of short-term accommodation hosts and the rules they must follow, and will facilitate the registration of hosts. They will also help to remedy the current fragmentation of how online platforms share data. , and will ultimately help prevent illegal listings. Overall, this will contribute to a more sustainable tourism ecosystem and support its digital transition,” it says in an official statement from the European Commission.
Among other things, there should be an optimization of data exchange between online platforms and authorities. Airbnb-like rental bookings grew 138% in the European Union in the first half compared to the same period last year, reaching 200 million room nights.
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