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The Airbnb formula takes hold in the yacht rental sector, which is growing again
Mónica Pérez
The nautical sector is expanding; it seems to have put behind it the most difficult period of the economic crisis and has now seen three years of continual growth. "The figures are still quite low, but you have to bear in mind that we're starting ... from zero because the sector disappeared altogether during the crisis," said Carlos Sanlorenzo, the general secretary of the National Association of Nautical Companies(Anem). This growth reflects a changing trend in consumption, which has readjusted ... the market. The hire of leisure yachts and, at the same time, the introduction of the "Airbnb formula" at sea, has become the driving force behind a sector which has now awoken from the coma it was left in by the crisis. The sector says "the rules