Most of the guests have been young travelers, heading to the slopes at the nearby Bear Mountain and Snow Summit ski resorts. For ski resort towns, the growing popularity of Airbnb, VBRO and other online booking sites has become a mixed blessing. The complaints come from officials at ski resort towns, who are resorting to extreme measures to collect lodging taxes from properties listed online. Despite the proliferation of short-term rentals, Mammoth Resorts’ rental properties haven’t lost business, Mammoth Resorts spokeswoman Lauren Burke said. Vail Resorts is working on a project to add affordable housing near the Keystone ski resort in Colorado, Katz said.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 22, 2017 11:02 UTC