Habtur does not believe that 40% of tourist accommodations advertised in Mallorca are illegal.

PalmThe Balearic Islands tourist housing association, Habtur, this Friday questioned the data released by the Consell de Mallorca regarding the illegal listing of tourist homes in Mallorca, which is estimated to account for 40% of these on the platforms.

In a statement, the tourist rental association described the data as "questionable" and criticized the waste of public money in the study that produced these figures. "We strongly doubt the reliability of these figures. The Consell admits that it used a private platform to detect and categorize properties, but has not published the methodology or the margins of error," they stated. For the association, this methodology does not allow for validating a true snapshot.

Given all these facts, they have demanded to know how much this contract cost and what technical criteria it was awarded under. Habtur has demanded transparency and the disclosure of the complete methodology, as well as the contract and invoices associated with the company that conducted the study and a technical report signed by those responsible.

Contradicting the reality of the sector

In the opinion of the tourist rental industry, the data used by the sector is nowhere near that 40%. Without an independent audit, this percentage is, at the very least, "hardly credible and contributes to generating alarm, stigmatizing legal operators, and distorting public debate."

However, for the association, if illegal listings on platforms reached 40%, the island's tourism minister, José Marcial Rodríguez, as the person responsible for tourism inspection and in office for more than two years, "would have failed in his oversight duty."