Eurostat
EU statistical office; its 854-million 2024 STR baseline is structurally understated by a third after TripAdvisor exit.
Brussels' 9 September draft law would let cities CAP short lets only with three years of proof, and Eurostat's platform series, 951.6 million EU guest-nights in 2025, is the only EU-wide count; its November 2024 break falls inside that window.
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Every EU city's STR night-cap is calibrated against a Eurostat figure that is a third too low; will it be restated?
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Nomads & Communities: Eurostat baseline understates EU STR growth by a thirdBackground
Eurostat is the Statistical Office of the European Union, a directorate-general of the European Commission founded in 1953 and based in Luxembourg. It publishes harmonised data from all 27 member states on the economy, population, trade and the environment, including a series on short-stay accommodation booked through online platforms.
That series has a break in it. Eurostat reported 951.6 million EU short-stay guest-nights for 2025, an 11.4% rise on 2024, but TripAdvisor left its data panel in November 2024, so the 2025 figure covers Airbnb, Booking.com and Expedia Group only. The 2024 figure of 854 million nights used all four platforms. Removing TripAdvisor's roughly 40 million nights leaves a three-platform 2024 base of about 810 to 820 million, which puts like-for-like growth at 16% to 18%. Eurostat did not restate the 2024 baseline.
City housing departments from Barcelona to Lisbon cite the headline figure when setting night caps and tax tiers, so the discontinuity carries into local policy.
Eurostat's series meets a proof test
Brussels published a draft law on 9 September that would let cities restrict short lets only in the most expensive housing markets, and only with three years of proof that short lets harmed housing. Eurostat's platform series is the one EU-wide count of short-stay nights, so any three-year look-back from 2026 runs straight through its break.
That break dates from November 2024, when TripAdvisor left the panel. Eurostat's 2024 figure of 854 million nights covered four platforms; its 2025 figure of 951.6 million covered three, and the office did not restate the earlier year. On that basis the headline 11.4% rise understates like-for-like growth, which a three-platform comparison puts at roughly 16% to 18%.