Airbnb is urging the authorities in Barcelona to reconsider its crackdown on short-term rentals in the city. Online marketplace for short-term and long-term homestays, Airbnb, is calling on those in ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Global holiday home rental company Airbnb has urged Barcelona's mayor to rethink a widening crackdown on short-term rentals, arguing that it only benefits the hotel sector while ...

Barcelona, one of Europe's most visited cities, said Friday it aims to ban apartment rentals to tourists by 2029 to ease the housing shortage in Spain's second largest city. An Airbnb logo on a phone ...

The mayor of Barcelona wants to ban short-term holiday lets in the city by 2028 in an "unexpectedly drastic move", said Sky News. Jaume Collboni said he would drive Airbnb out of Catalonia's capital ...

Tourists stroll along Las Ramblas, the popular street in the heart of Barcelona, on Sept. 17, 2021. A new rule prohibiting short-term private room rentals is taking a significant proportion of ...

The Spanish consumer rights ministry said that many of the 4,984 Airbnb listings it had ordered to be withdrawn did not include their licence number or specify whether the owner was an individual or a ...

A new rule, the only one of its kind in a major European city, forbids short-term private-room rentals, adding fuel to the debate over how to control booming prepandemic tourism. By Paige McClanahan ...