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The tourist tidal wave that’s flattening Europe’s cities

Historic cities are struggling to tackle a flood of short-term rental lets in their city centres

“Serene as a Tuscan village” is how the residents of Monti in central Rome, a charming quarter near the Colosseum, once described their neighbourhood. But that was 15 years ago, before the arrival of Airbnb, said Eric Reguly in The Globe and Mail (Toronto).

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