Resources for hospitality teams
Explore practical Compliance and Rules guides for vacation rental hosts and property managers.
When a channel stops passing a phone number, the answer isn't a workaround. It's a consent step at booking, written down in four fields, and a fallback chain that keeps the arrival possible without anyone's phone.
The Commission opened formal proceedings against Booking.com on 21 October 2026, as its own announcement states. Three areas of concern, none of them about commission, all of them about what a guest sees on the screen.
Three numbers circulate in host groups as if each one were a legal threshold. Two of them are habit, the third depends on where the flat is, and none of them is a substitute for a dated written answer from the authority that regulates your unit.
A rule that arrives on a known date is easier to plan for than one that might arrive any time. Bunkyo's amendment starts on a date the ward has already published, which leaves a sequence of checks rather than a scramble. This is the diary for working backwards from it.
Thailand's draft accommodation law would put hotels, homestays and rented units inside one definition. Hotel groups object to the wording, the standards and the changeover. Until the text clears the Council of State and is published, none of it applies.
Two flats on one street can sit under different night limits, and the difference isn't the flat. It's whether the host lives on site during the stay. That single question sorts a listing into one regime or the other, and it decides what you have to be able to prove later.
A night cap looks like one line in a calendar. Behind it sit research, a council decision, a state sign-off and an enforcement routine. Byron Shire's limit is the visible end of that chain, and the chain is what another market would have to build.
A distance rule reads like a safety clause and works like a supply cap, because it limits how many units a street can hold without ever naming a number. Norfolk's proposal turns on a measurement clause worth reading twice.
A Hoboken proposal would keep rent-controlled units out of short-term letting. It turns on what the unit's file says rather than on how the flat looks, and that file can be checked in an afternoon.
A booking platform that emails your guests about a local vote is making an argument to people who can act on it, not serving a notice on you. What to look for in the original, how to answer a guest who forwards it, and what to keep on file.