Resources for hospitality teams
Explore practical Compliance and Rules guides for vacation rental hosts and property managers.
Malaysia's 2027 budget reporting includes hotel-industry requests to tighten short-let rules, and they sit at a proposal stage rather than in legislation. Here's how to tell an ask from an obligation, and what to record while it's still an ask.
Short stays in Penang are governed by local conditions, reported to include a consent threshold and an annual cap on nights. Here's what each one actually measures, how the cap interacts with your season, and how to keep both current.
Japan offers three routes into short-term letting, and they differ most on how many nights a year you may sell. Here's what each route is for, how the 180-night cap reshapes a revenue model, and how to match the route to the property.
Tokyo's lodging tax is reported to move from a flat nightly charge to a 3% share of the room rate from 1 April 2027. Here's how the two behave differently, how to find the crossover on your own rate, and what to re-check afterwards.
Thailand's Hotel Act 2004 draws a line at 30 days, and platforms are expected to verify the licence code on a listing. Here's how a data request reaches your unit, which fields it reads, how to diagnose a mismatch, and what to fix first.
A ruling set aside one national registration requirement, and hosts read it as the end of registration. The duties stood under different authorities, and most of them were never in front of the court. This guide sorts them by author and gives you an order to check them in.
In some markets liability cover isn't filed as insurance at all. It's filed as a condition of the registration, and the register closes when it lapses. This guide separates the renewal date you remember from the one that counts, and puts the whole thing on a yearly schedule.
A registration number reads like a permanent fact about a property. It's a status, and it holds only while the documents behind it hold. This guide walks the chain from a lapsed file to a delisted listing, names the papers that fail most, and sets out a short monthly pass.
A corrigendum corrects the text of a regulation; it doesn't create a new duty. This guide explains what the September 2026 correction to EU 2024/1028 changed, what it left alone, and how to check whether your listing setup still matches what applies.
Owning a property abroad and being allowed to let it are two separate permissions, granted by two different authorities. This guide sets out the three gates a foreign owner faces, where ownership and letting permission come apart, and an order for reading any country's rules.