Huang Yu-chen, director of the Tourism Bureau's hotel inspection and supervision center, explains that for years homestay owners have protested that the five-room upper limit is rigid and inadequate to business realities, necessitating a more lenient policy. A number of problems exist with the 15-room, "special" homestays.
觀光局旅館業查報督導中心主任黃玉珍解釋，台灣民宿的發展相當蓬勃，多年來一直有業者反映一般民宿「客房數 5 間」以下的規定過嚴，不符現實需求，因此才計劃修法放寬。