The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, will have to face today in Congress the debate and vote on a PP initiative for the suspension of Decree 933/2021, a norm popularly known as the ‘Tourist Big Brother’ and which has put the Ministry at the feet of horses.
The decree provides that all intermediaries involved in the contracting of tourist services – hotels, travel agencies and vehicle rentals – have to share with the police the names, ages, emails, credit cards, departure dates, address and other data of your clients. It has the opposition en bloc of the entire tourism sector, which has managed to postpone its application twice.
Technically the rule will come into force on December 2, but in a last-minute maneuver, and after a meeting with the travel agency employers, which has been one of the most bellicose with the decree, on October 4, the Interior agreed that until a ministerial order is drafted for which there is still no date, no more data will be required than that which is currently being collected. That is to say, the ‘Tourist Big Brother’ will be in force but without effects.
In their non-law proposal, the popular ones argue that the approval and possible entry into force of the text “represents serious inconveniences” for the tourism industry and, as it is now written, its compliance is “unviable” and represents a “great competitive disadvantage” for Spanish tourism.
Therefore, it requires reviewing and readjusting it along with the tourism subsectors most affected by the regulations, considering its lack of viability and potential negative effects on the organizational capacity and operational reality of tourism companies.
Among other things, the training led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo will propose to Congress that the decree excludes corporate travel, event tourism (MICE) and groups, for which compliance “is unfeasible according to what has been repeatedly expressed by the most representatives of the sector.
Likewise, the PP urges the Government to open a new process of dialogue with actors in the tourism sector, including associations such as Cehat, CEAV, Acave, Fetave, UNAV or Feneval, to agree on regulatory development through a ministerial order and achieve greater effectiveness in its entry into force by adapting it to the operational realities of the sector.
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