EU Travel Tech
Brussels trade association of online travel companies.
EU Travel Tech, the Brussels association of online travel companies, said on 9 September that the European Commission's draft European Affordable Housing Act lacked Independent oversight and reliable data.
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EU Travel Tech is a Brussels trade association that represents online travel companies in European Union policy debates.
Its most recent public position concerns housing. On 9 September 2026 the European Commission proposed the European Affordable Housing Act, a Regulation setting when authorities may restrict short lets on housing grounds. EU Travel Tech, the European Holiday Home Association and CCIA Europe said the proposal lacked independent oversight and reliable data.
The draft ties any restriction to registration under EU Regulation 2024/1028, the short-term rental data rule that requires host registration numbers and data sharing by platforms. That link places the association's members inside the machinery that would justify and police a CAP, because the data their platforms hand over feeds the registers.
EU Travel Tech disputes the housing draft
On 9 September EU Travel Tech joined two other industry bodies in saying the Commission's draft European Affordable Housing Act (COM(2026) 599) lacked Independent oversight and reliable data. For an association whose members sell trips and stays online, the draft decides where a city may CAP the short lets those members list.
The text published that day lets an authority restrict short lets only where an average home costs at least eight years of disposable income per head. A restriction needs three years of evidence that short lets harmed housing, and it lapses after five years unless renewed. The draft sets no annual night CAP and no seasonal rule, so the association's objection goes to the evidence a CAP would rest on.
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