Study on the assessment of the regulatory aspects affecting the collaborative economy in the tourism accommodation sector in the 28 Member States (580/PP/GRO/IMA/15/15111J) : task 4 : cross-analysis report

Task 4 report complements the regulatory analysis in Tasks 1 - 3 with 11 in-depth market case studies assessing the economic development of the collaborative short-term rental platforms. The following 11 cities were under consideration: Athens, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Florence, Lisbon, London, Paris, Prague and Stockholm. The case study findings were cross-analysed in the present report and complemented with pan-European data to identify more wider trends. Task 4 report provides data and identify trends in the development of collaborative accommodation platforms by assessing their impacts on the local short- and long-term housing availability, the local tourism sector, and the local community. These impacts have been measured with a series of indicators, which have been collected through EU-level interviews with collaborative platforms and experts, desk research, and city-level interviews with local stakeholders. In this study, collaborative accommodation platforms include peer-to-peer (P2P) short-term rental platforms and home exchange platforms.