Not only in Turkey but money and tourists who go to the private sector were also counted, calling to fight with them by administrative methods. Yes, an alarming precedent for tourists also happened in Spain. There, in a province popular with tourists, the court forbade them to rent housing daily in the most sought-after area – it is about Andalusia.
As reported by the Spanish press, it is about a lawsuit brought by the city council of Cádiz against an application for tourist accommodation in the area of the old city, the Supreme Court of Andalusia has made a decision that will set a precedent on this issue because according to this decision, residences in the city center are no longer can be used for tourist purposes.
A similar decision was made in Seville. The court also named the reason for the ban – the implementation of Tourist Accommodation cancels the General Plan of Urban Development. They want to transfer the accommodation that is rented out to tourists to the status of “hotels of a different type”, which will mean a completely different approach and different taxation.
Although there are voices against it. Arlos Pérez Lanzac, president of the Andalusian Association of Tourist Residents, said the tourist accommodation system, which he says is a four billion euro market, is “dynamizing” tourism and the economy. But considering everything, the official hotel business does not want such “dynamics” at its expense.
We will remind you that in Turkey they also calculated the average number of private apartments and houses rented out to tourists on just one Airbnb – and were amazed at the scale of “subversive activity” of tourists who found them.
“The attractiveness of daily rentals for homeowners has made Airbnb competitive with hotels,” the Turkish press said. In Istanbul alone, about 45 thousand real estate units are offered for rent, of which almost 68% are apartments or houses, the average price per night is 2.6 thousand Turkish liras ($100). In Antalya, this website presents almost 28,000 real estate units, mostly private houses, and you can rent a 2-bedroom house in the city center for 2-3,000 Turkish lira for a night. There are slightly fewer offers in Bodrum and Izmir – about 7 and 10 thousand offers, respectively, the asking price – from 1.5 thousand liras for an apartment in the city center to 15 thousand for a villa. So, the country has already started a fight against housing that seems illegal – the extreme ones, of course, are tourists. Read details here.