Short-term let owners and operators gathered in Edinburgh on Tuesday to rally against new rules they say will “wipe out” the sector and destroy businesses. The demonstration took place less than a …

Following the decision one councillor has backed lodging an appeal, while others say the licensing scheme should be paused completely. The authority's planning chief said the Labour administration...

Brian Donnelly reveals holiday companies are having difficulty booking accommodation for international visitors to Scotland

The aim of this study is to examine whether the introduction of stricter rules on short-term rentals (STRs) in some European cities will have an impact on hotel...

Ralph speaks about short stay accommodation arguing it will have no measurable impact on affordable housing. That will only be solved by building affordable ...

Next month a grand experiment will be unleashed in Scotland as an enormously expensive licensing scheme for short-term lets comes into force.

Following talks with Living Rent the council will carry out essential repairs on 850 empty homes in the next year

A decision by the Court of Session on Edinburgh’s short-term lets (STLs) regulation “drives a coach and horses through the council’s attempts to regulate the sector,” a city councillor has said. A …

It will be Scotland’s largest traditional hotel by some considerable margin.

In one week's time, an enormous experiment is due to be launched which could transform the worlds of Scottish tourism and property.

I have yet to meet a single person who does not believe there should be a balanced mixture of housing and accommodation provision that suits Edinburgh residents and visitors alike.

Successful Scottish companies are always going to be attractive takeover targets

As the debate around what the future holds for the Bute House Agreement, SNP MSP Fergus Ewing writing exclusively for the Herald on Sunday raises…

An update on the impact of Scotland’s short-term let rules

As we enter the halfway point of the busiest time of Edinburgh’s year it is easy to reflect on the short-term lets legislation and the impact it might have on the festival next year.

Plus school strikes, tram inquiry fall-out and National Galleries opening

The local authority has come under fire for spending hundreds of thousands on legal advice - but an administration councillor has argued fighting the cases was "the right thing to do".

It looks as if a prominent local authority in Scotland is going to temporarily scrap the country’s tight rules on who can short let property.

Red tape and rising costs are squeezing the life out of a once thriving sector

Tourism chief highlights potential knock-on impact

We let Scotland's self-catering community speak in their own words about who they are, what they do and how recent Short Term Let legistlation threatens thei...

Campaigners fighting to save their Self-Catering & B&B businesses gathered from across Scotland to protest about impending Short Term Let Legislation at Holy...

Short-term lets licensing scheme criticised in Scottish Parliament as heavy-handed

Tourism chief criticises Scottish Government over "failure" to publish the enforcement framework on short-term lets

This View has been written by Garry Clark, Development Manager – East of Scotland, Federation of Small Businesses.

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