The Association of the main tourism companies of Spain (Exceltur) has quantified the number of tourist places from the 86,275 temporary tourist homes that the Government has identified as illegal and that will have to be removed from intermediation platforms. "They amount to 23% of the total tourist home places".Exceltur has rejected in a statement to the media “the existence of any illegal offer of tourist services (not only accommodation) that damages the image of the entire Spanish tourism sector and especially the entire business base that complies with the extensive and varied current legislation to respond to adequate standards of quality and safety for the consumer”.The association of the country's large tourism companies joins the Government's demand for digital platforms to "eliminate the illegal offer of tourist housing and collaborate, once and for all, in enforcing the regulations that pursue the achievement of a tourism model that preserves the quality of life of residents and the maximum balance with the reception capacity of the territories."
Its members are concerned about the “effect on the sustainability of the tourism model, the generation of tourism with greater socioeconomic contribution and the social image of the effects of tourism, derived from ‘the impact of this illegal offer of tourist housing on the increase in tourist pressure or the elimination of housing for use as a habitual residence’.”
Likewise, the tourism lobby acknowledges the “value of the Digital Single Window for Rentals to help enforce regulations on the marketing of tourist homes in Spain”.It also encourages all **institutions**, “especially **regional and local ones, to continue working on the eradication of any illegal proposal** for tourist services, which does not comply with urban planning, safety, hygiene, and service provision regulations, which has made the Spanish tourism sector a benchmark internationally”.