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This article provides a general overview on regional laws and regulations that may affect hosts in Melilla. Besides these laws, municipalities may have approved zoning regulations and/or restrictions that can impact your activity. You're required to make sure that you follow the laws and regulations that may apply to your specific circumstances and locality.
We recommend that you do your own research, as this article isn’t comprehensive, and doesn’t constitute legal or tax advice. Also, as we don’t update this article in real time, please check each source and make sure that the information provided hasn’t recently changed. Consult with your legal and/or tax advisor for your specific case.
The Government of Melilla has specific regulations for tourist accommodations. According to the Decree on the matter, “tourist accommodations” are understood to be those blocks or complexes of apartments, villas, chalets, and similar properties which are offered for rent on a regular basis and are equipped for immediate use for vacation or leisure purposes.
In Melilla, you’ll need to register any accommodation that you plan to offer as a tourist accommodation within the Register of Tourism Enterprises and Activities of Melilla. As part of the process, you will first need to submit a general application (“instancia general”) through Melilla’s e-site (“sede electrónica”). Then, you will need to submit a statement of responsibility to the tourism authorities that declares compliance with current regulations and any other requirements foreseen at regional and local levels.
After you successfully complete the registration process, a registration number will be assigned to your tourist accommodation.
In order to host in Spain, you may have an obligation to obtain a national registration number within the Property Registry and display it when listing your properties on Airbnb.
Review this article for further information on your national registration obligations and other relevant topics.
In Melilla, there's an obligation to include the national registration number when listing your property on Airbnb. There’s a field that you can use to include this registration number in the Listing details section. However, at the moment, it isn't necessary to display the local registration number of Melilla along with the national registration number.
To learn more about how Melilla tourist-accommodation regulations may be applicable to you or to your property, you can contact the Territorial Delegation of Economy, Trade, Technological Innovation, Tourism and Development.
We're committed to working with the local authorities to make the regulations clearer in the context of a collaborative economy, and to help them keep in mind the benefits of Airbnb to our community. Whenever necessary, we will continue to defend any changes to allow private individuals to rent their dwellings.