Travel is returning, but it has fundamentally changed as a result of the pandemic. Earlier this year, we launched The Great Rebalance of European Travel – a series of commitments to ensure that the return of travel in Europe is safe, sustainable and benefits everyone by spreading its economic rewards to more people and preventing the return of the overtourism phenomenon.

###Today, we are sharing an update on our progress against these commitments in collaboration with communities across Europe.

Supporting regulation of short term rentals Airbnb welcomes regulation and we have signed more than 1,000 regulatory and tax agreements globally. A growing number of agreements are underpinned by the City Portal – a digital one-stop-shop, built exclusively to support cities and tourism organizations – and earlier this year we launched a goal to have 50 European governments and authorities online with the tool by the end of 2021.

Today we can share progress that we have 35 City Portal partnerships in place with governments and organizations in Europe, including in the UK, France and Denmark, and we are in talks with more than 25 new European partners.