Officials in Prague are using the coronavirus crisis to get a firmer grip on short-term rentals like Airbnb, which they say have squeezed locals ...
PRAGUE: Officials in Prague are using the coronavirus crisis to get a firmer grip on short-term rentals like Airbnb, which they say have squeezed locals out of the Czech capital's centre.
"This is a tool for the government to regulate Airbnb and short-term rental," Prague's mayor Zdenek Hrib told Reuters after the measure was approved by the lower house on Wednesday. Landlords will now have to provide information on the location of a property rented through platforms like Airbnb, how often a flat was rented, the total payment received and identify the online service used to connect the owner with the client.Just over 9 million tourists visited Prague, which has a population of 1.3 million, in 2019, making it one of the most popular destinations in Europe behind only London, Paris and Rome, Euromonitor data shows.
Airbnb listed nearly 12,000 properties in Prague in 2018, according to Prague's development institute.
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