North to require all Airbnb hosts to register

The north will soon require all property owners who rent their properties on short term bases on tourism websites such as Airbnb to register their properties with the ‘government’ as it aims to better track the number of tourists visiting, ‘tourism minister’ Fikri Ataoglu said on Wednesday.

Speaking to Gundem Kibris TV, he explained that with the current state of affairs, whereby hotels register their guests and notify the authorities of the number of guests staying at any given time...