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Vacationers are increasingly looking for short-term rentals that may be haunted on online platforms like Airbnb and VRBO

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The culprit is prohibition, not lax border policing.

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Consumer group Which? compares cost of thousands of hotel rooms with 300,000 one-bed listings on popular accommodation rental websites

Consumer group Which? compared the cost of thousands of hotel rooms with 300,000 one-bed listings on popular accommodation rental websites.

Sometimes hosts offering to rent their vacation home, RV or car through peer-to-peer sharing sites don’t show up at the time they promised to exchange keys