Expectations for improvement in the legal regulation of tourist flats: Sustainability as an objetive

Abstract

Abstract: The unstoppable increase in the number of tourist rentals, apart from increasing the offer of tourist facilities to visitors, has caused undesirable effects on the urban fabric of large Spanish cities. The tension generated among residents by the degradation of the areas most affected by the phenomenon of vacation rentals has provoked, since the beginning of 2024, a public reaction against mass tourism, demanding that the authorities establish limits that manage to channel it properly through street mobilizations. The Spanish Public Administrations that were already sufficiently aware of the consequences of the phenomenon described have reacted promptly, taking advantage of the new perspectives opened up by the most recent jurisprudence of the High Court of Justice of the European Union. Each level of government, from its respective position of competence, has planned a series of actions, most of them coordinated with the territorial Administration that is closest to them to try to reverse the situation and satisfy citizen demands within a climate of tension encouraged by political confrontation.