Association of Cyprus Tourist Enterprises
Cyprus's hotel and tourism-enterprise trade body, lobbying the government to cap short-let rentals.
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Why is Cyprus's hotel lobby asking for the same short-let caps tenant campaigners want?
Timeline for Association of Cyprus Tourist Enterprises
Asked the government to impose an annual short-let rental cap
Nomads & Communities: Cyprus hotels lobby to cap short-letsBackground
The Association of Cyprus Tourist Enterprises (STEK), the island's hotel and tourism-enterprise trade body, asked the Cypriot government on 15 July 2026 to impose a maximum annual rental period on short-lets, 'following the model already adopted in a number of European countries', alongside systematic inspections, deterrent fines, mandatory display of registration numbers on booking platforms, municipal powers to restrict rentals in housing-short areas, and a compulsory overnight levy.
No draft law exists. STEK is a trade lobby representing licensed hotels and tourism enterprises, and its list is a submission to the Deputy Ministry of Tourism's forthcoming consultation on short-term-rental rules, not a government decision. The request followed an Audit Office report flagging enforcement weaknesses in Cyprus's current short-let framework.
STEK's demands sit close to what housing movements elsewhere in Europe have already won: Amsterdam halved its city-centre short-let allowance to 15 nights a year to protect tenants. STEK's version arrives from the opposite direction. Whatever its stated aim, capping a competing accommodation channel would functionally protect licensed-hotel market share, making incumbent hospitality capital a third source of pressure on short-lets, distinct from the Left's housing politics and the right's nativist politics, reaching for identical instruments for an incompatible reason.