Overview

• The ruling upheld by the Ministry of Social Rights requires Airbnb to delist 65,935 ads that lacked valid license numbers, landlord status disclosures or proper registration.
• Airbnb also took down 703 listings in Euskadi after hosts failed to include the region’s required tourism registration numbers.
• Real Decreto 1213/2024, effective July 1, established a unified digital registry to centralize oversight of all tourist accommodations in Spain.
• Spain’s consumption authority has identified another 54,728 listings without official registration and issued removal or correction demands to booking platforms.
• Booking.com removed and corrected about 4,000 noncompliant listings last month and platforms have been notifying hosts of their legal obligations.