February 7, 2017
The Spanish city of Barcelona on Tuesday rejected modifications by home-renting site Airbnb to its platform which aimed to ease a dispute with local authorities worried that visitor crowds are overwhelming the city. Catalonia is Spain’s most popular tourist destination and its capital attracted more than 8 million visitors in 2015, according to the latest official figures, raising concern t it has hit saturation point and posing a headache for its 1.6 million residents. Airbnb, which was fined in November for failing to comply with local tourism laws, said in a letter it would limit the number of listings per host and facilitate the collection of tourist tax from those advertising apartments. “This is a joke,” city hall spokeswoman Susana Suarez said. “It’s not clear in the letter whether (Airbnb) agrees to comply with the law and stop advertising illegal apartments.”…
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