Every time a European city cracks down on short-term rentals, hotel revenues go up.
Every time a European city cracks down on short-term rentals, hotel revenues go up.
That's not opinion. That's the data.
Amsterdam: Airbnb listings down 54% (2019–2024). Hotel RevPAR now ~10% above 2019. Analysts call it a "quasi-monopoly."
Barcelona: phasing out all 10,101 tourist apartment licences by 2028. Hotel ADR H1 2025 over €195, up 3.1% YoY.
Florence: introduced the CIN code. 20–30% of STR listings disappeared.
Europe-wide hotel RevPAR: +4.7% YoY in mid-2025. ADR +2.4%. Occupancy +1.6pp.
A peer-reviewed study across 80 European cities found stricter STR rules push hotel overnight…
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