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Short term Barcelona apartments to rent - General Overview of apartment industry in Barcelona

Wednesday, 18 March 2009 11:55

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There is no doubt that apartment rentals in Barcelona for short term stay  accommodation is becoming more and more popular among tourists and others who come to spend few days in this lovely city. This great form of accommodation has appeared in many cities around the world  from the beginning of this decade, when internet technology became  massively available and especially when fast broadband internet entered peoples homes and provided easy access to detailed information about the properties that were offered on line.

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In Barcelona the trend of Barcelona apartments to rent gained terrain rapidly because of a few factors; the main was the shortage of hotel rooms in the city. In many periods of the year (especially in summer) hotels occupation rate in Barcelona was reaching near 100%. At the same time, the touristic demand for accommodation, especially in the centre of Barcelona, has increased greatly during the last years. Many apartment owners in Barcelona discovered the new demand and started to offer their properties for tourists, for short term rental.

Consumers were very happy with the new trend. Suddenly an exiting alternative to the traditional hotel accommodation, becoming every time more expensive (especially if you are travelling in family of more then 3 persons) was available and the access to it thanks to Internet was easy and straight forward. While 4 or 5 years ago booking an apartment in Barcelona required a lot of email correspondence, today most of the big short term rentals agencies in Barcelona are offering safe and easy on line booking system that makes it as easy as booking a hotel. The only negative side was that many of the agencies and owners of tourist apartments were trying to make an easy profit by offering low quality apartments for relatively expensive prices. Many of the new apartments didn’t meet the minimum requirements and were in bad condition. Locations were not always adequate and the equipment was insufficient and poor. However with time the fierce competition in this sector helped to raise the standard of the properties as well as the service. It is still mostly recommended to use only big and serious rentals agencies such as Apartime.com and to avoid renting apartments directly from owners who don’t provide any guarantee. In Apartime for example the company has applied the European standard of quality of service and they are not the only one who does so. Many of the new rentals agencies are trying to be as professional as they can, understanding that with globalization consumers every time demand the same quality they are used to where ever they go, even in Spain. Willgoto, World travel directory and travel guide

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