Local accommodation establishments (LA) are those that provide temporary accommodation services, namely to tourists, for a fee, provided that they do not meet the requirements to be considered tourist enterprises.
Types:
- Villa: a local accommodation establishment whose accommodation unit consists of an autonomous, single-family building.
- Apartment: a local accommodation establishment whose accommodation unit consists of an autonomous fraction of a building or part of an urban building that can be used independently.
- Rooms: the operation of local accommodation carried out at the owner's residence (corresponding to their tax domicile) when the accommodation unit is a room and there are no more than three of them.
- Accommodation establishments: local accommodation establishments whose accommodation units are made up of rooms, integrated in an autonomous fraction of a building, in an urban building or in a part of an urban building that can be used independently. They may use the name hostel when the predominant accommodation unit is a dormitory, i.e. when the number of users is greater than the number of users in a room, and if they comply with the other requirements laid down for this purpose. As of February 4, 2021, hostels have new requirements - see Ordinance no. 262/2020, of November 6.
Capacity of local accommodation
Limits on the capacity of local accommodation:
The maximum capacity of local accommodation establishments is 9 rooms and 30 users, with the exception of hostels which have no capacity limit and rooms which can only be 3 at the owner's residence.
The capacity of local accommodation, in terms of users, is also limited according to the characteristics/size of the dwellings, and cannot exceed the number resulting from multiplying the number of rooms by 2.
In the case of apartments and houses, there is also the possibility of accommodating two more users in the living room, according to INE indicators.
In all types of accommodation, and if there are habitability conditions, up to two extra beds can be installed for children up to the age of 12.
Limits on the installation of apartments:
In the case of the apartment modality, each owner or holder of local accommodation may operate more than nine units per building if they do not exceed 75% of the number of existing fractions or independent parts of the building.
For the purposes of calculating the number of units to be operated, apartments registered in the name of the owner's or operator's spouse, descendants and ascendants, as well as those registered in the name of separate legal persons in which there are common partners, are taken into account.
source: idealistanews