Collaborative platforms in accommodation by Pilar Saura

and Windu has led to a massive increase in the supply of accommodation, contributing to the creation of sustainability problems in some destinations and the increase in price and reduction of the supply of urban rentals2. As a consequence of the above, the environment in which the Administration has to carry out its control tasks has changed a great deal in recent years. We refer to the so-called smart city, which is nothing more than the application of technical means to the management of local public services to achieve greater efficiency in the use of means, spaces, and infrastructures of municipal ownership3, all based on the analysis of macrodata provided through big data techniques. In the tourism sector, this data revolution is particularly intense and important and, as MARTÍNEZ GUTIERREZ points out, "in the case of tourist cities, the search for, implementation, development, and management through Smart models is an imperative and essential need"4. Thus, the digitization of management processes and public services is a cardinal point. As stated in the Commission Communication entitled Digital Compass 2030: Europe's approach for the Digital Decade5, digital transformation must enable more effective public action, including police and investigative capacities. This highlights the important role that public administrations are called upon to play in limiting or monitoring activity. In this environment, the use of new technologies by public administrations in the exercise of tourism inspection is becoming increasingly frequent. Certain European cities (Barcelona and Berlin) are pioneering online tracking to optimize the management of tourist accommodation in the destination using big data and analytics technologies. In this way, in collaboration with companies specializing in web scraping technology, VUT digital platforms are being monitored to detect the supply of tourist accommodation marketed in the destination. In this way, the Administration collects the information on the websites of the collaborative platforms, including such investigations in its inspection plans, thus bringing to light opaque or submerged activities. Web scraping systems or 2 Melgosa Arcos, 2021, p.417. 3 Bauza Martorell, 2017, p. 33. 4 Martinez Gutiérrez, R., 2018, p. 30. 5 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic, and Social Committee, and the Committee of the Regions (2021). Digital Compass 2030: Europe's approach to the Digital Decade, Brussels, 9.3.2021 COM 118 final.

RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTE4NzM5Nw==