Tourists in Italy will not be capable to entry short-term leases utilizing key containers after the nation’s police chief stated homeowners should confirm friends’ identities in particular person.
The initiative was adopted as a safety measure and follows an analogous step taken in Florence.
The rising reputation of short-term leases lately has been accompanied by the widespread use of key containers and different strategies to permit friends to remotely check-in and entry properties with out ever assembly the hosts.
For some, the containers have change into symbols of overtourism and have additionally sparked complaints about their visible influence.
Police Chief Vittorio Pisani defined to journalists that the necessity has emerged to “implement stringent measures” geared toward stopping dangers deriving “from the attainable housing of harmful individuals and/or individuals linked to prison or terrorist organisations”.
In a round to the native prefectures, he explains that in a “delicate historic second at a global stage” his workplace “confirms the duty imposed on managers of lodging amenities of any type and sort to confirm the id of friends utilizing a visible management system “.
The ordinance, explains Pisani, was issued in gentle of “the intensification of the phenomenon of so-called ‘short-term leases'” in addition to “the quite a few political, cultural and non secular occasions scheduled”, together with the celebrations of the 2025 Jubilee of the Catholic Church.
The mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri yesterday welcomed the ordinance, which got here primarily from the Interior Ministry, saying that it might imply “simpler controls on entry and an preliminary brake on unfair competitors”.
