The tourist apartment employers’ association defends in a PP day that many people “could not have vacations” if they did not exist

The vice president of the Spanish Federation of Tourist Housing and Apartment Associations (Fevitur), Asier Pereda, pointed out this Monday that many people “may not be able to have vacations” if there were no homes for tourist use. In a conference on the present and future of tourism, organized by the Popular Parliamentary Group in Congress, Pereda defended the need to have a “regulated and orderly” sector. “If we want Four Seasons we also have to have everything else,” he said.

Pereda has pointed out that this summer has been difficult for the tourist housing sector, with “too many headlines and too little stability”, which means that “the story kills the data”. “Many of us in this sector existed long before Airbnb or this type of platforms,” he stressed, and he has opted for “not inventing” regulations, but rather for those that have already been analyzed and give results, and for working in the “false intermediation”, since without this model there would not be “the tension that the sector may have had with certainly exaggerated growth.”

Furthermore, the vice president of Fevitur has defended that there are homes for tourist use with standards comparable to those of the best hotels, but that it is also necessary to have an offer of other purchasing levels because it is necessary to “fill the plane” not only with “those that “They go in the first four rows.”

Tourist homes have been putting pressure on the residential market in Spain for years. According to data from the National Institute of Statistics, these already represent more than 10% of the total in some locations in the Balearic and Canary Islands. In Madrid there are more than 14,000 and Barcelona, ​​10,000, whose licenses will not be renewed, as announced by Mayor Jaume Collboni.

“Tourist rental can be a problem for a big city but it can also be an opportunity in rural areas. A balance must be struck, together with the effort being made in Europe with a new directive to control the role of platforms in this market,” explained the Minister of Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, in an interview with elDiario.es.