Greenpeace warns Spain's water reserves built up over winter are already being drained by heat and overuse, with the Balearic Islands and northern Spain flagged as most exposed heading into peak season.
A new wave of coverage-review checklists is pushing short-term rental operators to check their policies for gaps before a guest incident turns into a denied claim.
Airbnb has begun offering car rental bookings inside its app, sourced through Dublin-based travel technology firm CarTrawler, extending its push into services beyond stays.
Gaiarooms says first-half revenue jumped 211% year-over-year to €15.2 million and it is holding to a forecast of more than €4 million in full-year EBITDA.
Woodstock, Illinois will start taxing short-term rentals on January 1, closing an exemption that let Airbnb and Vrbo hosts skip the lodging tax hotels already pay.
A Salt Lake City mother's lawsuit accuses Airbnb of failing to stop a party that ended in her 19-year-old son's death, testing how far the platform's safety tools actually go.
Airbnb is offering a one-time $200 bonus to Boulder, Colorado residents who put a home up for rent during Sundance Film Festival's first year in the city.
Written agreements spelling out who pays for damage, missed turnovers and broken schedules are becoming standard between rental operators and cleaning crews.
East Lothian councillors are set to reconsider a resubmitted planning application for new-build holiday let homes, a decision that will test how the council treats short-term rental development after an earlier version of the scheme stalled.
A trade association representing Andalusia's licensed vacation rentals says a proposed visitor tax would raise guest costs and wants operators consulted before regional lawmakers set any rate.
Direct-booking travelers filled more July stays than a year earlier but waited longer to commit, a trend rental operators are seeing echoed in their own calendars.
A free co-host agreement template addresses gaps in revenue splits, liability and account access that many informal Airbnb partnerships still never put in writing.
TrustedStays has launched in France, giving professionally managed short-term rentals and serviced apartments a route into corporate booking systems used by business travel buyers.
Streamside RV Resorts & Campgrounds has acquired Sandy Pines Campground in Kennebunkport, Maine, growing its national portfolio to 40 properties.
Delaware's new 4.5% short-term rental tax stacks with local levies like Rehoboth Beach's 7% surcharge, pushing the combined bite past 11% in some coastal towns.
The September 22 equinox marks the point where Northern Hemisphere hosts should already be repricing for fall shoulder season while Southern Hemisphere operators build toward their own peak.
Rental Escapes has opened its luxury villa portfolio to travel advisors through websites that carry the advisor's own name, not the company's.
Airports and land crossings that skipped full fingerprint checks during peak summer congestion have far less cover to do so once traveler volumes drop.
Property agents across the two counties say the end of favorable tax treatment for furnished holiday lets has not produced the wave of sales many expected.
Brokers say short-term rental investors are stretching pre-purchase research from days to months, checking permit caps and licensing rules before making an offer.