The Minister of Tourism and Andalusia Exterior, Arturo Bernal, said Friday that his department has canceled registration in the Andalusian Tourism Registry of 6.771 Tourist use homes (VUT) from 2024after detecting that they breached urban or tourist norms within the measures of “control, regulation and management” promoted by the administration in coordination with the Andalusian municipalities.
Malaga It is the province in which more registrations such as VUT have been canceled, specifically, 2,397. It follows Grenadewith 1,090; Sevillewith 1,032; a total of 888 in Cádiz; In the province of Cordoba they have been 437; in Almería, 425; Huelva with a total of 280; And lastly, Jaén, with 222.
In the same way, as explained by Bernal, of the 6,771 vu canceled since 2024, 3,612 have been ex officiowhile a total of 3,159 have been at the request of a party.
“Our task and obligation as competent administration is its regulation and management, not its demonization,” said Bernal counselor. In addition, as he stressed, “our tourist management is not thought only for the visitor.” “He inhabitant of our cities is a decisive actor When planning our, “he said valuing the promoted policies that have allowed the cancellation of 6,771 between cancellations of part or ex officio at the request of the municipalities and the counseling due to the urban or tourist regulations.
National problem
In this sense, Bernal has pointed out that the proliferation of VUT It has spread throughout the country. Therefore, he continues -we are surprised “the little implication that the Ministry has had so far of tourism “.
Thus, he has detailed that the Andalusian administration “has been requesting a sector conference in which this issue is addressed for three years. “We have not received any response from the Minister. Surprised the little weight that tourism has in the central government, despite being one of the main industries in Spain and being engines engine,” he lamented, while he has put an example to the regional executive, which according to Bernal, “he does put to work before this phenomenon, for consolidate sustainable tourismregenerative and respectful of residents. “
For this task, the counselor has detailed the tools promoted among which is, at the normative level, the decree of housing for tourist use. A consensual text that recognizes the powers of the municipalities, establishing that, for imperious reasons of general interest, they may establish limitations In the VUT number per building, sector, scope, periods, area or areas.
In addition, they have been signed Collaboration agreements with the cities of Seville, Granada, Cádiz, Málaga and Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz). “The objectives of this collaboration are to improve administrative coordination for efficient and more agile management in the exchange of information,” he explained for the treatment of information more integrated and automated for the detection of breaches.
Also, in coordination with the municipalities, Decree Law 1/2025, of February 24, urgent housing measures, at the request of the Ministry of Development, articulation of the territory and housing of the Junta de Andalucía, has been approved. Thus, the regulations contemplate for the municipalities in which they attend imperious reasons of general interestthe change of uses as well as the possible suspension of VUT licenses.
Clandestine
Bernal has also highlighted “the important effort that from the Ministry is being done in the fight against hiding. ” The complaints and communications received through the Citizen Collaboration Mailbox in the fight against clandestinity are deriving in the opening of the corresponding sanctioning procedures.
To all this is added the future implementation a project Scrapinga process by which information from websites automatized is extracted, through which inspectors may detect VUT that without having the corresponding tourism registration number of Andalusia are found on the main online platforms.
These actions go in line with the programmed inspection plan of the year 2025, a work that is not only carried out in person, but also progressing in other automated management measures. Among them, the integration of database with the signing of collaboration agreements with the municipalities or the web ‘scraping’ processes.
Municipal limitations
Preventive measures are also taken, such as Robotizations In registration initiate screens where they are automatically generated by database integration, citizen notices about the registration that it intends to perform in those cases where there are urban limitations of the City Council.
In addition, to avoid access to the Andalusian Vut Tourism Registry located in areas already limited by municipalitiesArturo Bernal has advanced the implementation of an improvement in Seville and Malaga in such a way that, who intends to register a VUT in a limited zone by introducing its cadastral reference, a notice will automatically come out.
“The house that you are going to register is in an area declared saturated by the competent City Council, so if you decide to move forward with the registration process, you are warned of the possible requirement of administrative responsibilitiesas well as that the procedure for cancellation of registration in the Andalusian Tourism Registry will begin immediately, “communicates the notice.
Sanctions
The counselor explained that the cancellation of the VUT may imply the impossibility of a new high for the same house for a period of one year. In addition, in the new tourism law this infringement will be considered very serious and will have a sanction of Between 100 thousand and 600 thousand euros.
All these measures, as Bernal has summarized, respond to “how the Andalusian route understands the Intelligent tourismputting as a priority to the Andalusians. “
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