@Mark116an hotel, or a similar professional structure, can sell a very large room with a kitchen and several rooms, completely comparable to an apartment here on Airbnb: compared to a typical Airbnb user, the professionist has to pay more taxes (almost all over the world) and has many and many more obligations and controls. Finally, in general, he has many more risks: for example we homeowners can when we want to change the type of rent or sell, this is not the case for many tourist facilities.
If today some places come to block short-term rentals, I disagree, it is above all thanks to years of web pirates who have flooded the tourist market too easily, too many times with unsafe and illegal homes. The rules are everywhere and what they do most is prevent something or grant it in the face of an obligation. The real injustice is what a lot of professionals have had to suffer.