Tourist accommodation: the Brussels Government approves the preliminary draft ordinance.
Tourist accommodation: the Brussels Government approves the preliminary draft ordinance | Press release – Rudi Vervoort STR-Belgium’s response in L’Echo of 28 September 2023 On 28 September, the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region approved, on third reading, the preliminary draft ordinance on tourist accommodation, replacing the ordinance of 8 May 2014. Below, we break down […]
STR-Belgium was present at the meeting organized by the Airbnb community of the Brussels-Capital Region this Thursday, 21 September 2023.
This Thursday, 21 September, STR-Belgium took part in the meeting organized by the Airbnb Community of the Brussels-Capital Region. It was an opportunity for STR-Belgium to present a number of observations regarding the ordinance of 8 May 2014 (and the newly announced one — see news of 28 September 2023) and to inform Brussels hosts […]
STR-Belgium welcomes the Government’s initiative to review the PRAS, a fundamental — and now obsolete — urban planning tool!
Share The City : la Région prépare la ville de demain | perspective.brussels STR-Belgium welcomes with great hope the initiative of perspective.brussels to finally review the PRAS (Regional Land Use Plan), an obsolete urban planning framework dating back to 2001 and completely out of sync with the ordinance of 8 May 2014 governing tourist accommodation. […]
Brussels-Capital Region: Members of STR-Belgium are appearing before the Brussels Court of First Instance this week to demand the issuance of their Urban Planning Compliance Certificate
This week, members of STR-Belgium and professional actors in the Tourist Residence sector will petition the Court of First Instance to obtain their Urban Planning Conformity Certificate. Let’s recall some fundamental points of the case: We will keep you informed of further developments. [1] The short-term rental sector in Italy represents approximately €11 billion in […]
Tourism in Brussels: non-hotel accommodation has not returned to pre-COVID levels – La Première, July 12, 2023
This interview on La Première on July 12, 2023 (Link to La Première audio recording) Tourism in Brussels: non-hotel accommodation has not returned to pre-COVID levels (P. Vandenbulcke – LP 12/07/23) – – Auvio (rtbf.be) where the Director of visit.brussels speaks is worthy of several comments: Let’s now return to the two statements made by […]
Airbnb in Brussels: a ruling by the Court of Appeal questions the legal framework
A very good article by Amandine Cloot in Le Soir newspaper, which neatly sums up the debate in its conclusion: “The issue is technical, but the stakes are crucial. This is true both for housing policy in the capital, as other cities are facing critical problems in terms of accessibility for their residents as a […]
Why Airbnb is making the housing crisis worse
Why Airbnb is making the housing crisis worse (ln24.be) Why Airbnb is making the housing crisis worse – La Libre This report has the merit of launching a debate on the topics of tourist accommodation and housing. Unfortunately, it does not escape the demagogic temptation to pit the two topics against each other, and in […]
Will the Brussels government kill thousands of tourist residences?
Will the Brussels government kill off thousands of tourist residences? | L’Echo (lecho.be) A very comprehensive article by Pauline Deglume in L’Echo that clearly outlines the situation in the Brussels-Capital Region. On the one hand, a Minister-President and his administration turning a deaf ear to an entire sector; on the other, all the stakeholders in […]
Providing accommodation to “transient guests”: national “anti-Airbnb” measures are not (necessarily) contrary to European law
In their analysis of the regulatory framework for tourist accommodation in the Brussels-Capital Region, with regard to the CALI Apartments case in Paris and the subsequent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union, and more specifically on the subject of the issuance of urban planning certificates by municipalities, the conclusions of this […]
