The galician government will intensify the control on the housing for tourist use, with the objectives of reducing the supply of illegal, increase safety and provide more information on the index of occupation.
The minister of Tourism, Román Rodríguez, stated that it is a modality that exists all over the world, which is in expansion and that it requires a regulation. In Galicia, a community, “pioneer”, are regulated from 2017, and therefore, “there are not the problems of other cities and there is a coexistence that is reasonable”.
Although the community has “much more advanced”, since January 1 of this year requires owners to include the registration number that appears on the Registry of Companies and Tourist Activities of Galicia (REAT) in the event that you promote in computing platforms intended for tourist rental.
This first month will be notified to those who do not comply with the regulations and will start to punish from February. It is a measure that seeks to give greater security for owners and users, and provide quarterly information to the Management on the data of occupation.
What is not clarified Román Rodríguez is how you will control throughout the bag housing that is moved by other circuits, and which operate outside of the law. The counsellor commented that they have “no record” of the occurrence of this type of situations, because the official data are not collected, although neither denies that there is this problem. In any case, commented that if there are complaints or inspections detect, sanctions will be imposed.
Good coexistence
The director of the Agency of Tourism of Galicia, Nava Castro, asserted that he had “good relations” between the houses for tourist use and other forms of accommodation, and illustrated with data.
In the community there are nearly 9,000 homes that have been taken in recent years. The majority (45%) are in the province of Pontevedra, in front of A Coruña, spain (37%), Lugo and Ourense. Sanxenxo and the coastal cities feature a large volume of accommodation in this mode, and Santiago is the city of the great galician with most cases.
According To Castro, opened 107 records, of which, 31, ended with penalty. The most common have to do with operate without registration or without authorization, with serious penalties ranging from 900 to 9,000 euros. In addition, advanced that, “in the coming months,” it will redouble the effort so that Galicia ‘continues to set an example”.
Meeting between the city Council of Santiago and the Xunta
In the next few days there will be a meeting between representatives of the Xunta de Galicia and the Concello de Santiago, city epicenter of tourism on the eve of the Xacobeo 2021.
The mayor Xosé Sanchez Bugallo, explained that it is going to create a team of work, in which the councillor for Tourism, Being Guinarte, and the Urban, Mercedes Rosón, will represent the galician capital to “coordinate the criteria of performance.”
In the words of Bugallo, it is “essential to the coordination“. “We can’t go in the opposite direction because it generates insecurity,” he argued. In similar terms is explained Román Rodríguez, who said that if all administrations operate in a coordinated way, there will be “offers more consistent and secure.”
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