MALAGA has introduced a recent crackdown on vacationer lodging following a wave of protests by fed-up locals.
Headlines all over the world have dubbed the brand new coverage as a ‘vacationer ban’, regardless of the regulation having no direct impression on holidaymakers – so what does it entail?
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Anybody visiting the Costa del Sol metropolis can proceed to e book motels, Airbnbs and vacation residences as earlier than.
The brand new laws is just concentrating on vacation flats that have been registered after February 22, 2024, and which shouldn’t have entrances and utilities which are separate to these of everlasting residents.
The affected properties will reportedly have their licences to behave as vacationer leases cancelled.
The measure applies to all 43 districts of Malaga metropolis and is in place for at the very least the subsequent three years. It doesn’t have an effect on the remainder of the Costa del Sol, reminiscent of Marbella or Estepona.
The coverage, by design, will hit the least effectively off Airbnb customers essentially the most, as it should basically render the ‘personal room’ choice out of date.
The ‘personal room’ choice sees owners hire out certainly one of their bedrooms to holidaymakers, usually to assist pay the payments.
The transfer comes after huge protests within the nation’s most saturated tourism hotspots, together with Malaga, Tenerife, Barcelona, Mallorca and Sevilla.
Such cities have introduced their very own measures in opposition to Airbnb-style properties over the previous 12 months.
Barcelona took essentially the most drastic route, asserting that it’s going to retroactively ban all tourism flats by 2028.
Sevilla has additionally banned new vacationer flats in its historic centre and in a number of of its most ‘saturated’ neighbourhoods.
