Airbnb is launching an ad campaign around San Francisco in April touting its economic impact as it continues grappling with the city over home-sharing regulations…

A Winnipeg man thought he had booked a dream vacation but it turned out to be a nightmare after the condo he rented through Airbnb was anything but glamorous…

Almost 600 Airbnb properties in the centre of Dublin could be used as long-term rental accommodation, a housing official has said…

The hotel industry took aim this week at the evolution of Airbnb, suggesting in a new study the notion of homeowners in Boston using the web platform to share their homes and generate a little side income is rapidly giving way to hosts using the site to build their own commercial businesses…

New apartments are being bought in Sydney purely for letting via online holiday rental agencies such as Airbnb, rather than as residential homes, a NSW Liberal MP has claimed…

An Airbnb rental was turned into a pop-up nightclub last weekend, for a 200-person party that sleep-deprived neighbours compared to London nightclub Fabric. It’s awkward timing for the home-sharing site, which this week launched its “music experiences” project, which encourages hosts to hold events in their homes…

A group of rental associations and hotel groups known as the Fairbnb.ca Coalition are trying to put a stop to what they call ‘ghost hotels’ and seeks to establish fair rules for Toronto’s short-term rental market…

Homesharing hosts should have to provide criminal background, ownership and insurance checks and prove they are compliant with apartment and/or condominium board rules for their unit, a coalition of hotel and tenants associations suggested in a new report…

When it comes to keeping a close eye on the competition, Toronto hoteliers say they have little choice but to watch as the short-term rental business scoops up lodgers right on their downtown doorsteps…

Ottawa’s hotel lobby group will wait to see what happens in Toronto before pushing for regulations targeting Airbnb, but the hoteliers already know what they want from city hall…