In the Mediterranean port city of Valencia the number of peer-to-peer holiday apartments has soared by 30% since 2016. The plan is to apply the same laws regulating hotels to tourist rentals. The Catalan city employs 40 people tasked with poring through holiday rental sites to ensure that properties have the proper licences. Between mid-2016 and mid-2017 Barcelona city hall, headed by a former housing rights activist, ordered the closure of over 2,300 holiday rental flats. The island city saw the number of holiday flats jump 40% between 2013 and 2017.

Source: Bangkok Post May 27, 2018 02:37 UTC