Collaborative platforms in accommodation by Pilar Saura

room/home to obtain extra income, but rather real estate networks with more than ten properties14. Faced with this situation of constant refusals to requests for information from Public Administrations, local councils with a significant supply of tourist accommodation issued a Declaration whose aim was to ask the European Commission to draw up new rules to control tourist rental platforms, obliging them to disclose the identity of the owners offering the properties and to share their data15 (which are legally obliged to share data with the Administrations). This declaration was adopted at the Conference on "European Tourism Rentals" held in Amsterdam in January 2018. About the situation that was occurring in parallel in certain destinations in our country, we can note that, in Barcelona, its City Council and the Airbnb platform reached an agreement whereby, since June 2018, hosts of new listings that share their VUT through the platform must give their consent so that some data, including name, address or ID, can be shared with local and regional authorities. It was a simple way to achieve verification that the accommodation complies with its legal obligations. Similar agreements exist in other cities such as New York or San Francisco. But the problem is far from being solved. While it is true that, as we have seen, the platforms usually require service providers to declare their income, the administrations of each country cannot have truly effective control if they only depend on their goodwill. This is why, in the following, we will analyze the possibility of the administration successfully demanding certain information from collaborative platforms. 14 https://www.cerodosbe.com/es/viajeros/agencias/como-hacerse-rico-con-airbnb_519464_102.html, last access date: 24 November 2021. 15 Madrid, Barcelona, Brussels, Paris, Krakow, Vienna, Reykjavik, and Amsterdam (London and Berlin did not attend but were invited to join the declaration.

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