Spain's consumer rights ministry blocks more than 65,000 Airbnb listings for holiday rentals

Thomson Reuters

· Posted: May 19, 2025 8:05 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

Spain's user rights ministry said connected Monday it had ordered Airbnb to retreat much than 65,000 listings for vacation rentals from its platform, saying they violated existing rules.

The Spanish authorities arsenic good arsenic metropolis councils and determination authorities person launched a wide crackdown connected tourism rentals via sites specified arsenic Airbnb and Booking.com, which galore Spaniards accidental are creating excess tourism, cramping lodging banal and making renting unaffordable for locals.

Most of the Airbnb listings to beryllium blocked did not see their licence number, portion others did not specify whether the proprietor was an idiosyncratic oregon a corporation, the ministry said successful a statement.

A spokesperson for Airbnb did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Consumer Minister Pablo Bustinduy has said his extremity is to extremity the wide "lack of control" and "illegality" successful the vacation rental concern and "favour entree to lodging and support user rights."

Barcelona Mayor Jaume Collboni took Spain's toughest determination truthful acold successful June past twelvemonth erstwhile helium ordered a full prohibition connected tourism rentals by 2028.