AMERICA HAS TWO LODGING ECONOMIES. Its destination infrastructure was built for one. ACCESS THE REPORT Hotels and resorts are counted, benchmarked, represented, marketed, and built into the machinery of destination management. Short-term rentals have become a permanent pillar of the visitor economy. But the systems around them haven’t caught up.…

We’ve Reached the Fake-Mustache Phase of STR Regulation Salt Lake City reportedly created fake Airbnb guest accounts to catch people operating illegal short-term rentals. Please pause here and enjoy the visual. Somewhere inside city government, a perfectly respectable employee may have been sitting at a desk pretending to be “Debbie…