Overview

• Airbnb’s Canadian policy lead says thousands of reservations face cancellation because hosts encounter glitches, typos and formatting errors in the new provincial registration portal.
• The regulations restrict short-term rentals to principal residences, secondary suites or on-site structures such as laneway houses to open up more long-term housing.
• At least half of the affected bookings involve domestic travellers who responded to government calls to support local tourism.
• The province and its ServiceBC branch are working with hosts to complete compliance steps and note that 65 platforms operate in B.C., many of which have already finalized registration.
• B.C. Conservatives, led by MLA Rosalyn Bird, criticize the rules as undermining the government’s staycation campaign by reducing rental availability.