Britain's Airbnb hotspots revealed: The 'ruined' coastal towns with the most holiday rentals - including the village with 247 short-term lets and just 550 households where locals are forced to live in vans By Adele Cooke Updated: 07:35 EDT, 17 June 2024 e-mail 5 View comments You would be hard pressed to find a Briton who doesn’t have fond childhood memories of soaking up the sun and paddling in the surf on one of our glorious beaches. The shingled-planes of Deal in Kent have long attracted visitors, while tourists travel miles to sample the fresh oysters in Whitstable, a seaside town 25 miles from Canterbury. But the popularity of Britain’s coastal communities is now threatening their very survival as an influx of holiday lets on the website Airbnb is driving out young families, forcing schools to close and shops to shut.
Abersoch, on the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales, has just 550 households and a staggering 247 Airbnbs. It draws crowds from Cheshire, Liverpool and Birmingham A Mail investigation lays bare the scale of the problem, and has identified the 24 seaside communities that are now Britain’s Airbnb hotspots – including one village that has just 550 households and a staggering 247 Airbnbs. Abersoch was once a quiet fishing village on the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales, but its popularity soared in the 1950s as wealthy families flocked to its coast to escape from the hustle and bustle of the city.
Now it draws a crowd from Cheshire, Liverpool and Birmingham who.
