The advertisements do not include a license or registration number, do not indicate the legal nature of the landlords and include license numbers that do not correspond to those issued by the authorities.
The Airbnb company must block 66,000 illegal advertisements From tourist houses on his platform, after an order received by the Ministry of Social Rights, the consumption and 2030 agenda of the Government of Spain.
The Ministry has urged the subsidiary in Ireland of this multinational to eliminate a total of 65 935 advertisements when they are considered illegal Relieves the instructions About advertising for this kind of tourist accommodations. In particular, it is of the opinion that the regulations of the various autonomous communities are violated where consumption has detected these advertisements. In all cases these are complete housing for tourist use, without advertisements from individual rooms.
In recent months, the ministry has sent to Airbnb to three resolutions in which illegal tourist housing advertisements were informed that were detected on its platform, resolutions in which this company was encouraged to block these advertisements.
Airbnb resorted to this action for the courts to avoid the blockade and now the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) has ruled the first resolution that issued a car in which the consumption campaigns Ee Insta Airbnb to eliminate a first party of 5800 advertisements in the cavine.
Why are Airbnb advertisements illegal?
They are argued of the general directorate of the consumer Three reasons To justify the illegality of the 65 935 advertisements of tourist floors that were detected in Airbnb and that would break various regulations.
Firstly, advertisements do not include the number license or registrationSomething mandatory in various regional regulations, which means the most common violation in the analyzed advertisements.
Also advertisements do not give the Legal nature of the landlordsSo that it is unknown whether the landlords are professionals or special, a matter that is essential to know if who hires in is protected as a consumer or not.
Thirdly, the advertisements are included license numbers who do not correspond to those issued by the authorities, a practice that “consumers can encourage errors”.
Source: EITB
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