MADRID: On-line resort reserving large Reserving.com on Friday (Jun 27) stated it had taken down hundreds of commercials in Spain within the leftist authorities’s newest crackdown on unlawful short-term vacationer leases.
A tourism increase has pushed the buoyant Spanish financial system however fuelled native concern about more and more scarce and unaffordable housing, a high precedence for the minority coalition authorities.
“We have now deleted a really small variety of adverts in Spain on the request of the patron ministry for supplying legitimate licences,” Reserving.com stated in an announcement.
The Amsterdam-based platform stated the non-compliant adverts represented “lower than two per cent” of its 200,000 properties in Spain and that it had all the time collaborated with the authorities to control the short-term rental sector.
The buyer rights ministry on Thursday introduced Reserving.com had scrapped 4,093 unlawful adverts, most of them positioned within the Atlantic Ocean’s Canary Islands, a high vacationer vacation spot.
Spain has additionally ordered on-line vacationer lodging large Airbnb to take down more than 65,000 adverts for violating licensing guidelines and has been in a authorized battle with the US-based firm.
The world’s second most-visited nation hosted a report 94 million overseas vacationers in 2024, however residents of hotspots corresponding to Barcelona blame short-term leases for the housing disaster and altering their neighbourhoods.
“We’re making progress within the combat in opposition to a speculative mannequin that expels individuals from their neighbourhoods and violates the suitable to a house,” far-left shopper rights minister Pablo Bustinduy wrote on social community Bluesky.
