First Paris began cracking down on short-term vacation rentals.
That's what makes for those good, long-term vacation memories".
Obscure city ordinances dating back 30 years are supposed to prevent apartments from being used as short-term vacation rentals without pre-approval from the city.
Much Marcle, Mappa Mundi and other lures Cottage We rented Green Gable, our cottage, from Rural Retreats, an agency providing short-term vacation rentals throughout Britain (minimum of two or three nights).
Priceline.com, which is also frequented by last-minute travelers, is also watching for a possible surge in customers who are wary of making long-term vacation plans, according to a company spokesman, Brian Ek.
He spoke outside the crumbling company apartment where he lives with his wife -- who was placed on unpaid "long-term vacation" by her factory -- and their 18-year-old son, who has been unable to find a job since he graduated from junior high school two years ago.
Airbnb has seen astounding growth since opening for business in 2008, with the short-term vacation rental service active in 30,000 cities as of December 2012.
While a variety of hotel booking platforms, as well as Airbnb, have the short-term vacation rental space covered, Tripping is geared toward longer trips, with an average stay of just over a week.
The Rice Mill Lofts, a riverfront apartment complex that Cummings plans to turn into a hub for creative-types looking for long-term vacation stays in New Orleans, was built in 2011 using reclaimed wood from the Mississippi River and is decorated with graffiti leftover from when the building sat vacant after Katrina.
Airbnb has single-handedly disrupted the traditional model of short-term vacation rentals.
They included one bill to require that retailers give employees two weeks' notice of their work schedules and a proposal to regulate short-term vacation rental platforms such as Airbnb.
