“Public Administration controls and inspections of tourist dwellings”, a study by Pilar Juana García Saura, won the award for the best research project related to the tourism industry at the last edition of FITUR.
MADRID – The winning work of the 24th FITUR-Jorge Vila Fradera Tribune Award, which is awarded annually by FITUR in collaboration with the Spanish Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism, AECIT, in recognition of academic research related to the tourism industry, has been published and is available on the International Tourism Trade Fair website.
Entitled “Public Administration controls and inspections of tourist dwellings” a work by Pilar Juana García Saura, is an in-depth look at the system of administrative intervention in tourist dwellings, focusing on the cornerstone of the whole intervention system: the capacity to inspect new digital environments characterised by accommodation-sharing platforms.
The current major growth in tourist accommodation, driven by the appearance of online intermediary platforms, has led to problems related to regulation, legal security, competition, sustainability, urban planning, etc., and it is essential to define the responsibility of these platforms according to the role they play. For this reason, Tourism Law has been responding to the challenges posed by the growth of collaborative tourism.
On the other hand, the Autonomous Communities have been regulating tourist accommodation in such a way that the Public Administration has had to exercise its powers in an increasingly digitalised situation, which, together with the adoption of European regulations, has led it to abandon its traditional role. Verifying, supervising or inspecting compliance with binding provisions is now a pending issue for Public Administrations due to the entry into the market of digital platforms.
There is currently a real necessity for the Administrations to carry out verification, supervision and inspection activities (which will lead, where appropriate, to penalties) on tourist dwellings. According to the author of this work, it is essential for the Public Administration to carry out a rigorous control of this new reality due to the huge impact is has on our cities. To this end, exercising inspection powers in the digital environments provided by the platforms that market these shared accommodations is nowadays essential, as is the automated inspection activity carried out through web scraping or robot inspectors.
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