Sharing economy

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Join Operation Recuperation to give healthcare workers a well-deserved break post-COVID-19

April 23, 2020

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Travel blog­ger Rachel Sher­wood is col­lect­ing pledges from accom­mod­a­tion pro­viders and second home own­ers to give health­care work­ers on the front lines of the coronavir­us SARS-CoV­­‑2 fight a well-deserved break. It’s called Oper­a­tion Recu­per­a­tion. Can you gift a future stay in your hotel or second home to our health­care work­ers? I’m hop­ing the answer is […]

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How Renaissance Venice coped with its short-term letting problem

March 16, 2019

overvisitation in Renaissance Venice

The Venice of 500 years ago had its own over-vis­it­a­­tion chal­lenges, includ­ing a boom in short-term accom­mod­a­tion rent­als. How they dealt with it chal­lenges us to think about today’s prob­lems in a more nuanced way, accord­ing to Rosa Salzberg of the Uni­ver­sity of War­wick. Cit­ies around the world have had dif­fi­culties bal­an­cing the interests of […]

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Residents, authorities, hoteliers grapple with global sharing economy

August 9, 2017

World tourism and the sharing economy

Protests by res­id­ents and lob­by­ing by hoteliers are for­cing gov­ern­ments glob­ally to toughen their stance on the accom­mod­a­tion shar­ing eco­nomy. Spain’s Balear­ic Islands has announced it will pen­al­ise land­lords for illeg­ally rent­ing apart­ments to tour­ists with fines of up to 40,000 euros (~US$47,000). Rent­ing apart­ments without a licence was banned in the Balear­ic Islands in […]

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