Spain had just over 397,000 tourist lettings last year, compared with 321,000 five years ago during the pandemic — a 24 per cent increase, according to data from the Spanish National Statistics Institute, which has mapped every area in the country where tourists can rent out Airbnb-style flats.
The boom in tourist flats in Spain in recent years has prompted backlash, with accusations that it is driving a housing crisis in the country.
Critics of Airbnb and other lettings agencies claim that the rise of these platforms has priced out local people and sparked protests against over tourism across Spain.
A demonstrator applies a tape cordon to the entrance of tourist apartments during a protest in Barcelona, Spain last month (Photo: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg via Getty Images)One such neighbourhood is Carret y Alamos in Malaga, where tourist flats account for 32.5 per cent of all housing.
In Cádiz about 22 per cent of all housing is tourist lets. In Cordoba, Granada and Seville, more than 10 per cent is dedicated to tourist lets.
Kike España, an urban investigator who was forced to move out of his city-centre flat in Málaga because it was turned into a tourist flat, said such short-term lets pushed up prices beyond the reach of local people.
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