THE rise of shared accommodations in the Asia Pacific region poses a threat to the hotel industry as many tourists prefer Airbnb rentals due to lower rates, according to a report by a global real estate advisor…

Australia has welcomed a new food delivery service, FoodByUs, where home cooks – not chefs – are the ones preparing meals. Co-founder, Ben Lipschitz, spoke with Hospitality about the concept’s point of difference, how it ensures food safety, and why it’s the Airbnb of the foodservice industry…

Landlords with buy-to-let mortgages risk breaching their loan terms if they start using their properties for short-term holiday lets through Airbnb instead of renting them out to ordinary tenants, the lending industry has warned…

New hotels are rising in Idaho cities, in some cases for the first time in decades. Meanwhile, another lodging-related issue is also bubbling close to the surface: How to handle Airbnb and other sites that allow homeowners to rent rooms and pay tax on the honor system…

Homelike is one of the leading PropTech companies in Germany, and their goal is to completely digitize the booking process of finding middle-to-long-term corporate housing…

The Israel Tax Authority is targeting homeowners who rent out their properties to tourists, after finding that more than 30 percent of them had not reported their income from short-term leases…

Airbnb received 188 requests for user information from law enforcement so far in 2016, the company said in its first transparency report…

Piggy-backing on LA Fleet Week’s huge crowds flooding San Pedro this weekend, Airbnb, part of the short-term rental market that offers online housing for travelers, has opened a pop-up shop in the historic downtown area to promote its brand…

Airbnb could be exacerbating the housing crisis by encouraging landlords to take long-term lets off the market, a report has warned…

On Wednesday, at a hearing where the Portland City Council decided to extend the “housing emergency” for another year, Portland Housing Bureau Director Kurt Creager gave testimony about what he and his bureau see as one of the causes of homelessness: short-term rentals, like Airbnb, taking formerly affordable homes off the market…