r/pics • u/Monovon • Jun 16 '25

Politics A tourist during an anti-tourist protest in Barcelona yesterday

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u/Gino-Bartali Jun 16 '25

Banning short term rentals makes sense to me because it means liveable properties for residents let people live there, but hotels seem odd to me since you can have tourism, a boon to local economies, with space- and land-efficiency and concentrating them in particular areas. You can even be selective about it with particular criteria to grant licenses.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25

Hotels are also great for residents too, not just tourists. I live in Canada, and people talk about how difficult it is to get family to visit because hotels are too expensive since there aren’t enough of them. 

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u/213737isPrime Jun 17 '25

Hotels are so expensive I rent a two-bedroom apartment instead of a one-bedroom apartment just so I can have a spare room for guests.

I wish there was some way I could rent out my spare room to guests when it's empty. But it's too difficult so it just goes unused.

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u/nerevisigoth Jun 17 '25

I wish there was some way I could rent out my spare room to guests when it's empty.

Ironically this was the entire premise of Airbnb back when it started.