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  • Countdown for traveler registration by tourism companies: key points and privacy challenges of the regulation

    It is expected that, from December 2, Royal Decree 933/2021 will be fully applicable, which obliges lodging and vehicle rental companies, as well as tour operators and digital platforms acting as intermediaries in these activities, to document and transmit their clients’ data to the authorities. This regulation presents certain challenges from a privacy perspective.
  • Parity clauses between hotel reservation platforms and hotel establishments are not “ancillary restraints”

    The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled on price parity clauses in contracts between an important hotel reservation platform and hotel establishments. The CJEU has determined that these clauses must be analyzed under the rules on anticompetitive agreements as they cannot be qualified as “ancillary restraints” since they are not strictly necessary to ensure the viability of the economic activity of the said reservation platform.
  • The impact on hotels, restaurants and cafés of the Spanish Special Tax on Non-Reusable Plastic Packaging: main challenges

    The tax impacts on companies in this sector, both through the higher cost of product purchases and through their obligations as taxpayers, in relation to intra-Community acquisitions and imports of non-reusable plastic packaging.
  • Overseas workers in the tourism industry: a review of IRPF benefits

    It is commonplace in the tourism industry to hire workers from abroad and send employees to work outside Spain. The Personal Income Tax Law provides personal income tax benefits for both these cases.
  • Spain: 24-hour telephone assistance during the stay in tourist apartments does not prevent the application of the VAT exemption

    According to the General Directorate of Taxes, this offer of telephone assistance to address incidents during the stay in a tourist apartment is not a service inherent to the hotel industry, so it does not affect the VAT exemption if no other hotel services are provided.
  • Tourism and climate change: a great challenge (and also an opportunity) for the sector

    The impact that climate change is having on tourism requires the adoption of measures that contribute to reducing its effects, not only by complying with sustainability regulations, but also because of the opportunity that the implementation of the best environmental and social practices can represent for the future of the sector.
  • Vacation rentals: how does the prohibition of economic or hospitality activities in community of owners (“comunidad de propietarios”) affect?

    The Supreme Court has recently ruled on whether or not the rental of residential properties as vacation accommodation constitutes an economic activity and, in relation to this question, whether the statutes of communities of owners can prohibit such non-residential use.
  • Hotel buildings on protected historic sites: a prior due diligence process reduces the risks

    Before starting hotel projects, a proper survey is needed of issues like the specific characteristics of the location, along with an assessment of whether there are any planning restrictions or whether a special enabling instrument is required.
  • The Spanish tourist sector faces news requirements to avoid food waste

    The Food Loss and Waste Prevention bill establishes a series of obligations for the food chain – which includes hotels and restaurants – such as having a plan to prevent food losses, reaching agreements to donate their surpluses or allowing customers to take back uneaten food.
  • Spain: Transfers of hotels and tourist establishments: the Supreme Court marks the boundaries of the nontollable time period in audits of reported values of real estate assets

    A recent judgment by the Spanish Supreme Court has established case law on an issue that may be very relevant to audits of reported values in transfers of tourist-hotel properties. In light of the new case law, assessments already issued in concluded reported value audit proceedings should be checked in order to review their potential time-barring.