Holiday accommodation: towards a balance between administrative control and freedom of enterprise

Abstract

Electronic platforms have recently helped to significantly increase the range of tourist-use accommodation (TUA), disrupting the traditional business models in the sector. On the one hand, control by the Administration is required, since the health, safety and rights of consumers and users must be preserved. On the other hand, the increased supply could alter free market competition. Homeownersdon’t have to seek excessive help from elsewhere, mainly because electronic platforms improve marketing and promotion. In addition, the occupation of dwellings located in horizontal properties can cause conflicts of coexistence with neighbours who use the house all-year-round, and not only on a seasonal basis. The purpose of the work is to highlight the way in which legislation and jurisprudencehave solved these controversies, and to propose some criteria for proportioned regulation.

Keywords

• tourist-use accommodation
• free market competition
• administration
• safety
• coexistence