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European Holiday Home Association

EHHA

The European Holiday Home Association is a united voice of short term rentals in Europe.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Philippe Moseley (Cabinet of Commissioner Dan Jørgensen)

20 Jan 2026 · Short term rentals

Meeting with Nikolina Brnjac (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Nov 2025 · Short-Term Rentals and Upcoming Regulation

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

7 Oct 2025 · HOUS Draft Report

Meeting with Dan Jørgensen (Commissioner) and

2 Sept 2025 · Short-term accommodation rentals

Response to European Affordable Housing Plan

4 Jun 2025

The European Holiday Home Association (EHHA), the voice of short-term rental (STR) accommodation players in Europe, is writing to share its perspectives and recommendations on local STR rules across the EU. Please find the document attached.
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Meeting with Filippo Terruso (Cabinet of Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas)

7 Mar 2025 · Presentation of EHHA activities in relation to the short-term rental

Meeting with Josianne Cutajar (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion) and Airbnb Ireland UC and

26 Apr 2023 · Short Term-Rentals Regulation

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

1 Mar 2023 · Short Term-Rentals Regulation

Response to Short-term rental initiative

14 Oct 2021

The European Holiday Home Association welcomes the chance to input into the European Commission’s work on an EU short-term rental (STR) initiative. As a voice for STRs, our membership is diverse: representing non-professional and professional service providers, entrepreneurs, property managers, online platforms, and other business owners who cater to the STR sector. All of these groups were severely impacted by COVID-19 but struggled to receive access to support funds and programs, which were often not built with a diversity of actors in mind. Nonetheless EHHA members are now playing a role in Europe’s pandemic recovery by providing offerings that are widely dispersed across European towns and regions (not just in city centers), and by funneling the economic benefits of travel into wider communities by encouraging local spending and contributing income to STR providers. We are open to discuss how to make the tourism ecosystem as inclusive and beneficial as possible, including within the scope of this important initiative. We continuously engage with policy makers to support harmonized, proportionate, clear and justified regulation at all levels. We trust this will ensure the safe & sustainable growth of STR activity, such that it can contribute to Europe’s recovery, while providing authorities with the necessary transparency and oversight they need to enforce local rules. Unfortunately, too often local STR rules continue to be unclear, disproportionate, and, on occasion, contravene EU legal frameworks. Many are under constant review, not published in a central website, introduce different obligations for different categories of service providers, and even have different rules within any one city - creating a hyper-fragmented regulatory landscape that exacerbates legal uncertainty and poses challenges for effective enforcement. This is why the EHHA strongly welcomes EU-level intervention to help reduce regulatory fragmentation and increase legal certainty for all. While local authorities should always have the power to legislate according to local situations, the EU has a role to play in defining a tested and standardised framework that provides clarity and consistency on a number of key topics. For example, guardrails on what does - and does not - constitute proportionate rules at local level, such that these are in line with EU laws and provide a framework for the objective criteria and thresholds necessary for local authorities to (in specific conditions) introduce additional restrictions as exceptions to a host’s freedom to provide services in the EU, would be welcome. Equally, we would welcome consistency and clarity in relation to registration systems, as the main vehicle by which local authorities gain transparency over STR activity. A common and consistent approach for platforms to share personal data, in line with GDPR, can build on the good-faith efforts of EHHA members who have engaged in the EUROSTAT agreement to share aggregated tourism statistics and support evidence-based policy making. Any additional data sharing obligations should seek to fill the gaps in the legal framework – if any – and should also take into consideration ongoing EU work in this field (e.g. DAC7, DSA, Data Act). The EHHA recognises that platforms can and do have a role to play in implementing some of these changes, but have historically struggled with local rules that confer broad and untenable general monitoring obligations, at odds with the ECD. It is our desire to find a solution that acknowledges what is possible and reasonable for platforms, from both legal and technical perspectives, while respecting the fact that it is up to authorities to enforce their own rules. EHHA and EU travel tech have committed to several actions (https://ehha.eu/vision/) on the sustainable development of STRs. We hope this serves as a fruitful building block in continued discussions at both EU and local level, and we stand ready to engage on next steps.
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Response to Package travel – review of EU rules

16 Sept 2021

The European Holiday Home Association (EHHA) which is a united voice for short-term rentals, supports the Commission’s further work on the application of the Directive 2015/2302 on package travel and linked travel arrangements (“Package Travel Directive”) and provides its comments to the Commission’s further work on PTD(attached).
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Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

18 Sept 2020 · Discussion on short-term rental platforms

Meeting with Christiane Canenbley (Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker)

24 Sept 2018 · DSM discussion

Meeting with Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

6 Sept 2016 · short term rental

Meeting with Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

21 Apr 2016 · short term rental

Meeting with Kilian Gross (Digital Economy)

6 Apr 2016 · short-term rental industry