For this reason, she doesn't believe that the increases will harm bookings for the summer. Experience over the Easter period supports this view. Occupancy was not affected. Sixty per cent of properties linked to Habtur were available, and 80% of these had bookings.
As a representative of the legal and registered holiday rental offer, Gibert supports Council of Mallorca efforts to get tough with the illegal supply. In this regard, she says that there will be fewer illegal properties available this summer, precisely because of the tougher line being adopted by tourism inspectors and more sophisticated, technological means of detection.
The Council's Sustainable Tourism Observatory and the University of the Balearic Islands have developed a data-driven geolocation system for helping inspectors to home in on illegal supply.
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Lisa JuliaAbsolutely true. It's not difficult. And they can do it programmatically, rather than using humans to check it. Why they don't bother is a good question. However, Airbnb isn't the only holiday let broker, and though they often seem to be clueless about certain things, they do demand that hosts declare and prove their legality. Some apparently slip through the net, but for example, I've just received an message from Airbnb demanding that we reconfirm our licence, and that the location of our listings is correct and precise within the next 48 hours, or else be delisted. I have not received anything remotely similar, nor have I ever been required to prove our licence to any other platform (e.g., Booking, VRBO, etc) . And that seems to suggest that it's not just Airbnb. Nonetheless, I sense this problem is on its way to the deep blue sea. Airbnb or otherwise.
Or they could just go on the air bnb site and simply check the ETV numbers. Simples