While bookings and rental rates have plummeted in Barcelona and Madrid, two of Airbnb’s biggest markets globally, rural or coastal areas and some smaller cities are showing new life after Spain imposed some of the strictest coronavirus restrictions.
MADRID: During a surreal summer in Spain, Perla Requejo saw so much demand for the Atlantic coastal apartment she had been unable to rent on Airbnb during lockdown that she listed another and raised her daily rate.
While bookings and rental rates have plummeted in Barcelona and Madrid, two of Airbnb’s biggest markets globally, rural or coastal areas and some smaller cities are showing new life after Spain imposed some of the strictest coronavirus restrictions.
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