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Do you think Provincetown is losing its charm?
The town's unique inns — a staple for decades — are in decline.
Provincetown, a seaside town on the northern tip of Cape Cod well known for its restaurants, art galleries, and LGBTQ community, may be losing its nostalgic charm, according to an article in The Boston Globe.
The town, affectionately known as P-town, has been named among 15 trending destinations in the U.S. and among the 10 friendliest towns in America. But the community is worried the town is losing its character because its unique inns — a staple for decades — are in decline, wrote the Globe.
The town currently has 82 inns and hotels, down from nearly 100 in 2010, according to the Globe, and short-term rentals have fallen from more than 1,200 in 2019 to 855 today.
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The decrease is due to larger operators increasingly managing P-town’s commercial land, wrote the publication, which has resulted in higher prices and no vacancies. There is also a housing shortage, town manager Alex Morse told the Globe, because hotel workers are using former inns for employee housing since workers can no longer afford to live there seasonally.
“This is a town where every place has a story. When an inn burned down, the town literally helped breathe life back into it and rebuild it. … But it’s also definitely a place of dichotomy, and there is worry of a Nantucket-ization of P-town,” Andrew Gianopoulos, general manager of the AWOL Hotel, told the Globe.
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