The parliamentary group of Sumar has brought to Congress a non-legal proposition to introduce a tax in the tourist destinations of the country in the way that is already present in the Balearic Islands.
The proposition urges the Government to create a Working Table with the Autonomous Communities from the Ministry of Tourism, competent in the matter, to coordinate proposals aimed at establishing taxes on tourist stays.
The collection of the taxes, according to Sumar, should be earmarked and serve for "environmental protection and employment", as well as to "regenerate the territories deteriorated by tourist activity".
"The objective of tourism must be to improve the living conditions of society, and in this aspect the tax can help alleviate one of the main problems generated by mass tourism, the impact on the territory," reasons Yolanda Díaz's party.
The tax, they argue, could "result in the adaptation of the tourism model that allows to generate different employment conditions and not introduce incentives for the rise in housing prices in tourist areas to persist".
"Reasonable limits of tourist ceiling for each destination"
Sumar demands the Government to "make available to the municipal tourist authorities the necessary resources to undertake audits that accredit the impact on public services provided to citizens that the flow of visitors has".
Likewise, they ask that reasonable limits of tourist ceiling be established for each destination, through the tourist pressure studies carried out, constituting a Panel of experts in public administration from the different Autonomous Communities or Cities.
Among other measures, the non-legal proposition also asks the Government to incorporate specific budget items in the General State Budgets for aid to cooperative entrepreneurship that allows the distribution of wealth generated by tourist activity.
