There are a lot of cities where apartments have become AirBnBs, caused great disruption to their neighbours, and driven up rents. This has resulted in people demanding that Something Be Done.
Edit: downvoted for asking a question you disagree with? What is this reddit?
If entire apartments are made into AirBnbs, there's less apartments in the market which turns the prices up, what's so hard to grasp ?
It's naive to only look at one factor and ignore the others, yet that's often how far this debate goes.
It seems very unlikely AirBnBs will "take less space" than a hotel. Hotels are quite space-efficient, given they're largely small, single rooms.
> There's a finite amount of tourism/visitors
Yes, but that could be much larger than the current level. A discussion in the context of Edinburgh: https://www.hotelmanagement.net/own/edinburgh-looks-to-limit...
It might be finite but it's exploding. Even semi remote places get crowded these days.