Europe 2025/26

[jamesdeluxe]

This just in from the Grey Lady:

A Crisis in the Alps: Airbnb, Climate Change and Americans​

The mountains’ resort towns have reached an inflection point, facing changes that threaten their cultures and even survival, as demand for short-term rentals reshapes the landscape.

A Crisis in the Alps: Airbnb, Climate Change and Americans

The mountains’ resort towns have reached an inflection point, facing changes that threaten their cultures and even survival, as demand for short-term rentals reshapes the landscape.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Sbooker]

This just in from the Grey Lady:

A Crisis in the Alps: Airbnb, Climate Change and Americans​

The mountains’ resort towns have reached an inflection point, facing changes that threaten their cultures and even survival, as demand for short-term rentals reshapes the landscape.

A Crisis in the Alps: Airbnb, Climate Change and Americans

The mountains’ resort towns have reached an inflection point, facing changes that threaten their cultures and even survival, as demand for short-term rentals reshapes the landscape.

www.nytimes.com

Makes accommodation very cheap in the months of April, May, June, September, October and November. Early December, most of January and most of March pretty reasonable too.

 

[Tony Crocker]

This caught my eye from James' link.

In Chamonix last winter, there was a 32 percent increase in overnight stays from U.S. customers.

Perhaps the relative value proposition is starting to dawn upon the general population of American skiers.