Why hotel prices are stagnant in Berlin despite growing occupancy rates


Skift Take

The hotel industry is getting attacked on several fronts from sites like Airbnb and Couchsurfing, and the rise of vacation-apartment rentals in Berlin have left hotels unable to raise rates in order to stay competitive.

Straying from the traditional hotel market, an estimated five million visitors to Berlin last year chose to stay in unregulated, privately rented vacation apartments instead of registered hotels, acco