Every time a European city cracks down on short-term rentals, hotel revenues go up.

Every time a European city cracks down on short-term rentals, hotel revenues go up.That's not opinion. That's the data.Amsterdam: Airbnb listings down 54% (2019–2024). Hotel RevPAR now ~10% above 2019. Analysts call it a "quasi-monopoly."Barcelona: phasing out all 10,101 tourist apartment licences by 2028. Hotel ADR H1 2025 over €195, up 3.1% YoY.Florence: introduced the CIN code. 20–30% of STR listings disappeared.Europe-wide hotel RevPAR: +4.7% YoY in mid-2025. ADR +2.4%. Occupancy +1.6pp.A peer-reviewed study across 80 European cities found stricter STR rules push hotel overnight stays up an average of 9%.The official line is that regulation protects housing.But Barcelona rents are still up 68% over the past decade. Restricting short-term rentals didn't fix that.What it did do: transfer pricing power back to hotels.In 7 days, the EU regulation lands. Remember who actually wins.Full breakdown in the video 👇