{"id":197749,"date":"2025-06-19T18:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/197749\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T18:01:09","slug":"spanish-court-rejects-airbnb-appeal-and-keeps-order-to-block-nearly-66000-listings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/197749\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish court rejects Airbnb appeal and keeps order to block nearly 66,000 listings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your support helps us to tell the story<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 cKWiEj\">From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it&#8217;s investigating the financials of Elon Musk&#8217;s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, &#8216;The A Word&#8217;, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 cKWiEj\">At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 cKWiEj\">The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"sc-1uza6dc-1 huxBsk\">Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong>Read more<\/p>\n<p> A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/spanish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spanish<\/a> court on Thursday rejected an appeal by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/airbnb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Airbnb<\/a> and left in place an order to block almost 66,000 rental listings that the government said violated local rules.<\/p>\n<p>The government has said the platform&#8217;s short-term rentals exacerbate Spain\u2019s housing crunch while the country welcomes record numbers of tourists.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/spain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spain<\/a>&#8216;s government ordered Airbnb to block 65,935 listings in the country after the Consumer Rights Ministry flagged them for violations. It said Airbnb had to immediately take down 5,800.<\/p>\n<p>An Airbnb spokesperson could not be immediately reached for comment on the Madrid\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/high-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High Court<\/a>&#8216;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry has said the listings it flagged did not include their license number or specify whether the owner was an individual or a company. It said others listed numbers that didn\u2019t match what authorities had.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Consumer Rights Minister Pablo Bustinduy told The Associated Press that the tourism sector could not &#8220;jeopardize the constitutional rights of the Spanish people,\u201d including their right to housing and well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Cuerpo, the economy minister, said in a separate interview that the government had to tackle the unwanted side effects of mass tourism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-197749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114711342867501833","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}