Overview
- Spain's consumer affairs ministry said the penalty is final and ordered the platform to delete illegal content.
- Officials identified 65,122 adverts that breached rules, including properties without a licence or with mismatched licence numbers.
- The fine equals roughly six times the estimated profit earned from the listings between the government's warning and their removal.
- Airbnb says it removed about 65,000 flagged listings in July and will challenge the sanction in court.
- The action follows a June order for Booking.com to take down more than 4,000 illegal adverts as authorities confront record tourism and housing strain.