Of the 5,140 housing units for tourist use in the Basque Autonomous Community, 787 are more than a year ago, 2,611 in Bizkaia, 1,183 in Gipuzkoa and 346 in Álava. In Navarre there are 1,583 homes, 347 more than last year.
The Spanish state had done so at the end of February last year 351,389 homes for tourist use (early retirement) and 6723 of them were in Hego Euskal Herria, 5140 were located in the Basque Autonomous Community (CAV) and 1583 in NavarraThis is evident from the latest figures from the National Statistical Institute (INE).
From the 5140 VUT in the CAV, 787 more that a year ago, 2611 are in Bizkaia, 1183 in Gipuzkoa and 346 in Álava. In the Foral community there are 1,583 houses for tourist use, 347 more than last year.
The Ministry of Consumer Affairs announced on Wednesday the opening of an investigation into the tourist houses operating without a permitthat targets the companies and the owners who advertise them, not the platforms they advertise on, according to General Manager of Consumer Affairs Daniel Arribas.
The more than 351,000 homes that INE has collected in its experimental research, with data at the end of February, are 46,253 more than a year earlier (15% increase) and accommodates 1.75 million beds, an increase of 13.3%. The number of rooms per home is approximately five.
As a percentage of the total number of homes in the Spanish state, February figures place early retirement at 1.3%, up from 1.2% a year earlier and 1.1% in February 2022.
This INE statistic only collects data from August 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, when 321,496 holiday homes were registered.
The autonomous communities with the highest concentration of this type of accommodation are logically the most touristy, and the ‘heat map’ drawn up by the INE data sites almost the entire coast in red, except the CAVprecisely.
Andalusia leads this classification by community, with 82,454 houses; followed by the Valencian Community (59,413); Catalonia (52,598) and the Canary Islands (46,784).
In fourth place are the Balearic Islands, with 25,073 early retirement; Madrid, with 19,456, and Galicia, with 17,883.
Source: EITB
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