Isabelle Landry and Audrey-Anne Béland, Co-authors of the Union des Municipalités du Québec’s Guide about Tourist Accomodation

Our lawyers Isabelle Landry and Audrey-Anne Béland drafted for the Union des municipalités du Québec a decision-making guide on the municipal framework for tourist accommodation.

Updated in October 2022, the guide is a tool to assist elected officials and municipal officials in their decision-making regarding tourist accommodation activities within their municipalities. This new version of the guide, originally published in January 2020, reflects the recent changes brought by the coming into force of the Tourist Accommodation Act and the regulation under the new Act on September 1, 2022. The authors cover the following topics:

• The new Tourist Accommodation Act
• The role of each of the municipal actors
• Rules applicable at the provincial level and new legislation on the subject
• Urban planning courses of action for municipalities
• Tax tools available to increase municipalities financing