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Hotels and Short-Term rental groups are typically always on opposite sides of the political isle when lobbying on what technically counts as a short-term rental. However, in the post-pandemic era, they can both learn from one another. Hotels do not need and simply cannot, given the labor shortage, to outsource and entire team to welcome guests to their rooms. Adversely, short-term rentals, like Airbnb, can do a much better job at communicating with their guests. Contactless communication can be streamlined through and app that most hotels traded front desk interactions for given the pandemic. Airbnb will need to streamline their app usage to create less back-and-forth between both parties

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Mestrado Bolonha em Finanças ; Lisbon's housing market is currently experiencing a scaling price increase of properties and by consequence rents. It is well-established that this phenomenon is leading to a house unaffordability and displacement of residents from urban central areas. On the other hand, new house-building activities are giving a fresh face to old and vacant buildings and busting neighbourhoods economies. An upraise trend in tourism, and deductively high touristic accommodation demand, induced several homeowners and constructors to react to the demand, and convert residential houses into touristic lodging. Discussions about the accountability of the short-term rentals and home-sharing platforms in the housing market change, driven governmental intervention in traditional neighbourhoods. Due to these debates, the empirical question of this study is whether the short-term rentals activity increases the housing and rent prices. The effects of home- sharing rentals on housing market are detected by estimating house and rent prices as a function of number of listings in the city. An increase in housing prices of approximately 96 €/m2 and 0.16€/m2 in rents is estimated to be due to short-term rentals. Understanding this impact is fundamental to evaluate the necessity of regulation in this market, in order to create a balance between economic growth and quality of life of residents. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

In this section, we reflect, both empirically and speculatively, on the perspectives for STRs and related digital platforms in the (post-)pandemic city, on the grounds of early signals of change in relation to spatial justice and institutional arrangements. The discussion is opened by Tulumello and Cocola-Gant, who, by investigating the case of Lisbon, Portugal, reflect on the flexible nature of platforms vis-`a-vis the (neoliberal) cloud of de- and re-regulation in housing and rental markets, discussing how this intersection allows STRs to adapt and succeed, also during the pandemic. Similarly, Iacovone explores the professionalisation of platform-mediated STRs and their adaptability to increasingly more flexible and malleable requests from the market – dimensions that allow them to successfully outcompete smaller actors. Finally, Pettas and Dagkouli–Kyriakoglou, by focusing on the case of Athens, Greece, discuss the ways STRs could be transformed into housing infrastructure for remote workers in connection to the restructuring of the post-pandemic labour market. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Despite the overwhelming impact of the pandemic across all domains, short-term rental (STR) was especially hard hit. Unlike the literature on Covid and tourism, scientific production on the pandemic and STR remains rare. This article presents the results of a pioneering survey of STR hosts in Portugal about the impact of Covid on their activity. The main results show that, despite the very high losses, especially in the cities, most of the respondents intend to continue operating in the STR sector. A massive migration from STR to long-term rental is not predicted for a number of reasons, including financial, given the nature of this type of supply – more temporary – and the high level of distrust of the state, specifically in terms of guaranteeing legislative stability. In the cities, medium-term rental is the alternative most commonly considered, suggesting there may be a possible restructuring of the sector and, consequently, of the urban centres in which most of the STRs are concentrated. Survival capacity over the medium term will depend on the degree of losses and type of public support received during the pandemic, which has benefited hosts constituted as companies more than the much larger group of self-employed entrepreneurs.

The increasing professionalisation of Airbnb-style short-term rentals has emerged within a grey space between residential housing and hotel accommodation. Subsequently, an array of contestations have arisen, due in no small part to the intangibility of online short-term rental platforms as well as the absence of clear regulation at the municipal level. In urban settings already confronted with housing issues such as supply shortages and reduced affordability, recent studies show how the proliferation of short-term rentals can amplify housing market pressure while feeding into the broader urban processes of gentrification, touristification, and displacement. Using Berlin, Germany, as a site of analysis, this paper explores the expansion of short-term rentals in relation to various policy interventions designed to regulate the conversion of residential housing into tourist accommodation.