Barcelona officials plan to ban short-term tourist apartment rentals by 2028, mirroring policies that have bubbled up across Europe in recent years. "We are confronting what we believe is Barcelona's largest problem," Barcelona Mayor Jaume Collboni said at a city council event. Barcelona will look to eliminate all rentals by the 2028 deadline. The city will scrap all 10,101 apartment licenses approved as short-term rentals, Reuters reported.
MOST TRAVELERS TRYING TO KEEP FRUGALITY IN MIND WHEN PLANNING SUMMER TRAVEL: EXPERIAN "Banning short-term rentals while opening the floodgates to new hotels in Barcelona will not fix housing concerns or make tourism more sustainable. It serves only to take much needed income from local families and gift it to international hotel chains," the association wrote.