Barcelona volition prohibition AirBnb apartments successful a hopeless bid to halt rents spiralling and support locals from the effects of wide tourism.
Mayor Jaume Collboni pledged that determination volition beryllium nary tourer apartments successful the Spanish metropolis by 2029.
If authorities is approved by the Generalitat of Catalonia, municipal governments volition enforce the prohibition connected AirBnbs by refusing to contented caller licenses arsenic good arsenic not renewing existing ones.
Mr Collboni believes this determination volition unfastened up the marketplace for much short-term lets and marque Barcelona much affordable for young radical who person been forced retired owed to soaring rents.
Rental prices successful Barcelona person accrued by astir 70 per cent successful the past decade, portion the outgo of buying a location has risen acold much dilatory astatine 39 per cent.
A household locomotion past anti-tourism graffiti successful Barcelona
Mayor Jaume Collboni (pictured) pledged astatine a property league successful Barcelona that determination volition beryllium nary tourer apartments successful the Spanish metropolis by 2029.
The Spanish person said rents were 'skyrocketing' and young radical and those connected averages salaries were being pushed retired of the metropolis owed to unaffordable housing.
On Friday Mr Collboni said: 'We request lodging proviso to turn truthful that radical bash not person to determination retired of the metropolis and truthful that lodging prices bash not emergence and commencement to fall.'
A licensing strategy for AirBnbs was introduced successful Barcelona successful 2011.
Four years later, erstwhile Mayor Ada Colau - who is known for his anti-AirBnb stance - prevented spot owners from letting retired azygous rooms, according to The Times.
In a further crackdown connected wide tourism, the Spanish metropolis raised its 'tourism tax'.
Travellers tin present expect to spot a hefty €3.25 oregon $3.52 added to the ft of their accommodation measure for each nighttime spent successful Barcelona.
Over 12 cardinal tourists visited the picturesque metropolis successful 2023 - galore flocking to attractions specified arsenic the Sagrada Familia, Las Ramblas alley and Park Guell.
Damià Calvet, a councillor from the separatist enactment Together for Catalonia, called Mr Collboni's caller plans 'improvised', 'ideological' and 'not based connected legality oregon the regularisation of the rents themselves'.
Maria Harris, of manufacture body, The Open Property Data Association, said the Mayor's determination 'comes down to politics'.
She added: 'A batch of younger radical are being forced to permission the city.
'Lots of little income families can't find rental accommodation. He [Mr Collboni] thinks the reply is to trim the magnitude of homes for tourism.'
Visitors sunbathe on Barceloneta formation successful June 2021
A presumption of Barcelona from Park Guell
Park Guell is known for its galore mosaics and is simply a apical tourer destination successful Barcelona
Tourists locomotion up and down Las Ramblas alley successful Barcelona successful April 2024
And the warfare connected tourism wages connected elsewhere successful Spain.
Tourists successful Costa Blanca could beryllium fined up to €200 oregon £170 for buying souvenirs from unlicensed sellers.
Meanwhile boozy holidaymakers volition beryllium banned from drinking connected nationalist streets successful Magaluf.
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