Mallorca is cracking down on illegal holiday lets. | Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter
Palma28/10/2024 11:19
More than half of the online advertisements for tourist rental accommodation in Mallorca are suspicious, according to the first results of the work carried out by ‘Talk&Code’, a Catalan company contracted by the Council of Mallorca to monitor legal and illegal tourist offers on the island in real time. According to the island’s councillor for tourism, José Marcial Rodríguez, after a few months of joint work, of the 43,426 advertisements analysed, 11,269 have been marked as highly suspicious of fraud, another 11,761 as suspicious, and the rest, more than 20,000 as correct.
3 comments
To be able to write a comment, you have to be registered and logged in
It's difficult to say what the real scale of this is. But because the risks are so incredibly large (80K in fines + back taxes) I find it shocking that so many would take that risk (unwittingly?). How stupid do they need to be? ...or is this more hyperbole than reality (?) It's hard to know because there's so few verifiable facts. It's mainly speculation. Having said that, apparently, the government is woefully inadequate at finding them and enforcing it, and this should help. But you know, they *must* be busting a few of them (?). They should get the press involved in every bust - all the details, how they found them, how they got to the people behind it, and the fines and back taxes levied. They should be blasting it out in the local and international press and social media with every bust - tabloids love to sensationalise this sort of thing - they'd eat it right up, and magnify it 10x. That would probably strike some serious fear in the illegals.
They don’t rely on third party booking sites only. They also advertise directly to potential short stay renters on things like Instagram and TikTok. Some even put their homes on Google maps. They have their own websites where you book and pay directly with them.
Ya think?