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Meeting with Borja Giménez Larraz (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

15 Jan 2026 · HOUS Draft Report

Meeting with Nikolina Brnjac (Member of the European Parliament)

9 Dec 2025 · Upcoming Short-Term Rentals Proposal

Meeting with Barbara Brandtner (Director Competition)

4 Nov 2025 · Exchange of views on the regulation of the short-term rental market

Meeting with Hubert Gambs (Deputy Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

30 Sept 2025 · Exchange of views on the services policy and short-term rental

Meeting with Gabriele Bischoff (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Sept 2025 · Austausch

Meeting with Philippe Moseley (Cabinet of Commissioner Dan Jørgensen)

12 Jun 2025 · Housing

Meeting with Filippo Terruso (Cabinet of Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas)

12 Jun 2025 · Short Term Rental

Response to European Affordable Housing Plan

3 Jun 2025

At Airbnb, we recognise the discussion around short-term rentals (STRs) and housing is complex and multifaceted. Experts agree that the main causes of the crisis are lack of investment, high construction costs, onerous bureaucracy, a growing population, migration, land use restrictions and high vacancy rates. STRs can contribute constructively to these challenges when integrated thoughtfully into the broader ecosystem. However, a disproportionate focus seeking to scapegoat STRs for a chronic challenge will not solve the real issues facing Europeans. Allow us to share some observations: - Economic contributions: Digital platforms have a unique role to play in integrated urban development and redistributing tourism. In 2023, STRs added 149 billion to EU GDP and 2.1 million jobs, supporting tourism beyond major cities, with over 50% of Airbnb stays occurring in non-urban areas. Most hosts use STRs to monetise unused spaces, aiding their financial stability in high-cost regions. Especially in neighborhoods without traditional hotels, this model allows visitors more choice and to experience local culture while spurring benefits directly to communities. - Addressing misconceptions: High-occupancy, dedicated listings represent a much smaller proportion of housing supply than what is perceived. In Amsterdam, entire homes rented more than 90 days constitute 0.09% of total city supply; in Barcelona, this number is 0.94%. As most STRs are not real estate investments dedicated to tourism, our experience shows restrictions are unlikely to address housing pressures effectively. In Barcelona, rents have risen by 70% since the clampdown on STRs began in 2014. Two years after New York City imposed one of the strictest STR regimes in the world, Airbnb rentals dropped by 92% while vacancy rates remained stagnant. Meanwhile rent and hotel prices climbed 3.4% and 7% respectively (StreetEasy, CoStar). - Transparency: Of course, impacts do vary at the hyper-local level. This is why new EU STR rules are so important in driving greater transparency and helping authorities craft targeted, effective regulations. We are committed to the successful implementation of the EU STR Regulation, which as of 2026 ensures a harmonised approach to data-sharing on the basis of single, simple, online host registration. - Holistic Approaches and the way forward: Where legitimate concerns about the impacts of hosting are raised, they typically relate to specific neighborhoods - not entire cities - and we want to partner with governments on targeted and proportionate solutions. We believe a balance must be found between addressing local issues where there is a proven link to STRs, without decimating STR activity in the hope this will solve Europes housing or overtourism challenges. Crucially, successful and effective data-sharing is the basis for how European cities introduce informed measures in neighborhoods where pressures are a concern. Calls for additional EU intervention empowering local authorities to restrict or ban STRs are premature without the benefit of the thorough evaluation of data the EU STR Regulation aims to provide. Similarly, the European Commission is accountable for the successful implementation of this Regulation, as a critical first step before any determination of systemic issues related to STRs may take place. Over the coming months, Airbnbs priority will be to exchange best practices on proportionate rules whilst lending more visibility to data-driven discussions. We look forward to sharing insights to illustrate this nuanced picture and how we can work together towards meaningful outcomes for all actors in the housing sector.
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Meeting with Maravillas Abadía Jover (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Apr 2025 · Short Term rentals

Meeting with Katrin Langensiepen (Member of the European Parliament)

10 Apr 2025 · Culture, digitalization, housing protection

Meeting with Nils Ušakovs (Member of the European Parliament)

10 Apr 2025 · Sustainable Tourism Strategy and EU discussions around Housing

Meeting with Pierfrancesco Maran (Member of the European Parliament)

27 Mar 2025 · EU Housing Policy and Short Term Rentals

Meeting with Valentina Schaumburger (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné) and Booking.com B.V. and

11 Mar 2025 · Implementation of the STR Regulation

Meeting with Matthew Baldwin (Deputy Director-General Energy)

17 Feb 2025 · Exchange of views on housing policy and short-term accommodation rentals, in particular implementation of the new Regulation on Short-term Rentals (STR)

Meeting with Elsi Katainen (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Dec 2024 · Airbnb company introduction and activities in Finland

Meeting with Marcos Ros Sempere (Member of the European Parliament)

19 Nov 2024 · Meeting with Airbnb

Meeting with Billy Kelleher (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Nov 2024 · Short Term Letting

Meeting with Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Nov 2024 · Short Term Lets

Meeting with André Rodrigues (Member of the European Parliament)

6 Nov 2024 · Latest Airbnb activities in Portugal

Meeting with Laura Ballarín Cereza (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Oct 2024 · Priorities for the mandate 2024-2029

Meeting with Hristo Petrov (Member of the European Parliament) and Association of Commercial Television and Video on Demand Services in Europe

9 Oct 2024 · Introductory Meeting

Meeting with Sophia Kircher (Member of the European Parliament)

9 Oct 2024 · Package Travel Directive

Meeting with Gabriella Gerzsenyi (Member of the European Parliament)

8 Oct 2024 · Introductory exchange of views on regional development policy and housing

Meeting with Daniel Attard (Member of the European Parliament)

8 Oct 2024 · Short-Term Rents Legislation

Meeting with Antonella Sberna (Member of the European Parliament)

8 Oct 2024 · Data-Driven Policymaking for Balanced Regional Development in the Tourism Sector

Meeting with Hannes Heide (Member of the European Parliament)

8 Oct 2024 · General exchange of views

Meeting with Sebastião Bugalho (Member of the European Parliament)

3 Oct 2024 · Priorities for the Mandate

Meeting with Sérgio Gonçalves (Member of the European Parliament) and Associação de Vinhos e Espirituosas de Portugal

2 Oct 2024 · Priorities for this mandate

Meeting with Cynthia Ní Mhurchú (Member of the European Parliament)

25 Sept 2024 · Housing and Tourism

Meeting with Josianne Cutajar (Member of the European Parliament)

6 Feb 2024 · European Sustainable Heritage Award Ceremony

Meeting with Barbara Thaler (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

28 Nov 2023 · STR

Meeting with Barry Andrews (Member of the European Parliament)

29 Jun 2023 · Legislation on short-term rentals

Meeting with Deirdre Clune (Member of the European Parliament)

28 Jun 2023 · Short Term Rentals

Meeting with Frances Fitzgerald (Member of the European Parliament)

27 Jun 2023 · Short Term Rental Regulation

Meeting with Billy Kelleher (Member of the European Parliament)

27 Jun 2023 · Short Term Letting Regulation

Meeting with Ivars Ijabs (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

26 Jun 2023 · Short-Term Rentals

Meeting with Sara Cerdas (Member of the European Parliament)

23 May 2023 · Reunião sobre proposta de alojamento local de curta duração na UE

Meeting with Josianne Cutajar (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion) and Expedia Group and

26 Apr 2023 · Short Term-Rentals Regulation

Meeting with Brando Benifei (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and CONFEDILIZIA

13 Apr 2023 · "Short-term rentals" file in IMCO (meeting held by assistant responsible)

Meeting with Kim Van Sparrentak (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

30 Mar 2023 · STR

Meeting with Kim Van Sparrentak (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and International Union of Tenants

20 Mar 2023 · Short-Term Rental

Meeting with Josianne Cutajar (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion) and Expedia Group

15 Feb 2023 · Short Term-Rentals Regulation

Meeting with Marc Angel (Member of the European Parliament)

14 Feb 2023 · Short-term accommodation rentals

Meeting with István Ujhelyi (Member of the European Parliament) and Expedia Group

14 Feb 2023 · Short time rental-Tourism

Meeting with Benoît Lutgen (Member of the European Parliament)

31 Jan 2023 · Regulation Short term accommodation rental services

Airbnb pushes for EU-wide data system over national platforms

12 Jan 2023
Topic — EU regulation on data collection and sharing for short-term rental services.
Message — Airbnb wants a single EU-wide data entry point instead of 27 national systems. They argue national systems create technical fragmentation and compliance delays. The company also wants the Commission to verify that local registration rules are proportionate and calls for enforcement against disproportionate local restrictions.123
Why — This would avoid building 27 different technical products and reduce significant compliance costs.4
Impact — Local authorities lose flexibility to design registration systems tailored to their communities' needs.5
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Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

20 Dec 2022 · short term rentals and sustainable tourism

Meeting with Sara Cerdas (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Apr 2022 · Proposta de regulamento da Comissão sobre aluguer de curta duração da UE

Meeting with Monique Pariat (Director-General Migration and Home Affairs)

24 Mar 2022 · discuss ukrainian refugees and actions taken by Airbnb

Meeting with Filomena Chirico (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton), Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

16 Feb 2022 · Short Term rental

Response to Short-term rental initiative

13 Oct 2021

Airbnb welcomes the opportunity to feed into the European Commission’s work on a regulatory proposal for short-term rental (STR) accommodation. STRs bring enormous benefits to Europe and its citizens, especially as the region looks to economic recovery post-COVID. In the EU, new hosts on Airbnb with a single listing earned $70 million from Jan-June 2021. And when guests are staying with hosts, they are spending in local neighbourhoods and supporting local businesses. Increasingly, this economic benefit is spread more equitably across the EU and not solely concentrated in large cities. More people are travelling to remote destinations and rural hosts on Airbnb are benefiting, helping to spread tourism to new areas. Tourist taxes are another way to help authorities recover from the pandemic. In France alone, Airbnb helped to collect and remit approximately €120 million in tourist taxes from 2015-19. The Commission’s work on STR rules is thus an opportunity to build EU-wide legislation that ensures the sustainable growth of an important economic sector. The patchwork of local rules across the EU undermines the Single Market. They often place disproportionate burdens on individual service providers and tourism SMEs - those small businesses offering accommodation services via STR platforms - as well as on platform intermediaries. These laws restrict the ability of both service providers and platforms to offer their services freely in the EU. Furthermore, the fragmented nature of local rules makes it difficult for service providers to understand their obligations, and can lead to inconsistent enforcement and diverging case-law, which exacerbates fragmentation and uncertainty for stakeholders over time. Despite a desire to support responsible home-sharing, local rules requiring STR platforms to ensure hosts include registration numbers (for example) often confer a broad and untenable general monitoring obligation on the platform which is at odds with the ECD and DSA discussions. This is in part because many of the local rules underlying host registration are ambiguous, introduce different obligations for different types of host, have an uncertain geographical scope, are under constant review, and are not published in any kind of public database, creating confusion among hosts, service providers and platforms alike. Airbnb supports an EU approach to STRs to ensure a more consistent framework for home-sharing across the bloc. For example, a common EU registration framework to harmonise registration requirements and ensure rules are fair and proportionate, bearing in mind the nature of the host as peer or professional. Consistency in relation to registration systems in the EU would also provide a more predictable and stable regulatory framework - allowing for simpler, more efficient enforcement of the underlying rules. We would also welcome a more robust EU framework to allow for a harmonised, consistent approach locally on STR data sharing, in compliance with the GDPR. Local-level data-sharing requests are too often ill-conceived and run contrary to EU legal frameworks. Airbnb has always recognised the role and powers of local authorities in regulating STR in their jurisdictions, especially in those instances where local challenges require specific and targeted policy responses. As such, we believe that local authorities should - in specific circumstances - be able to introduce limited restrictions. However, these additional restrictions, to the extent that they constitute - explicitly or effectively - a circumvention of a host’s freedom to provide services in the EU, should be temporary in time, justified and proportionate, and align with strict criteria - including objective criteria and thresholds pre-determined by the EC for local intervention - and be supported by clear EU notification and authorisation procedures. We look forward to providing more information in our consultation response.
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Meeting with Filomena Chirico (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

8 Jun 2021 · Regulation for short term rentals

Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

17 Dec 2020 · DSA, DMA

Meeting with Anthony Whelan (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)

8 Oct 2020 · Pandemic effects, practive work with local and national governments (e.g. on host registration, over-tourism), Digitl Services Act

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner)

30 Sept 2020 · Platforms regulation and sustainable tourism

Meeting with Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President) and

24 Sept 2020 · To discuss Digital Services Act

Meeting with Elina Melngaile (Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)

21 Nov 2019 · latest developments in the payments field; PSD2;AML

Meeting with Phil Hogan (Commissioner)

16 Oct 2019 · rural tourism

Meeting with Phil Hogan (Commissioner)

16 Oct 2019 · RURAL TOURISM

Meeting with Věra Jourová (Commissioner) and

18 Sept 2018 · CPC action concerning the EU consumer law compliance of the terms and conditions of Airbnb

Meeting with Věra Jourová (Commissioner) and

18 Sept 2018 · Consumers protection

Meeting with Juhan Lepassaar (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip), Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

6 Sept 2018 · Platform-to-business

Meeting with David Boublil (Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici)

6 Sept 2018 · Meeting to discuss the digital service tax.

Meeting with Ann Mettler (Director-General Inspire, Debate, Engage and Accelerate Action)

1 Mar 2017 · Collaborative Economy

Meeting with Thibaut Kleiner (Digital Economy)

8 Nov 2016 · Internet platforms

Meeting with Elżbieta Bieńkowska (Commissioner) and

20 Sept 2016 · innovation, start-ups, collaborative economy

Meeting with Sebastian Kuck (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

5 Sept 2016 · Collaborative economy

Meeting with Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

8 Jul 2016 · collaborative economy

Meeting with Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

24 May 2016 · Collaborative economy

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

24 May 2016 · Platforms, collaborative economy, startups

Meeting with Eduard Hulicius (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová), Simona Constantin (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)

29 Sept 2015 · Sharing ecnonomy and the accommodation sector

Meeting with Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

28 Sept 2015 · Digital Agenda, sharing economy

Meeting with Grzegorz Radziejewski (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

28 Sept 2015 · Digital Single Market