Exceltur, a sector of Spanish Tourism,reported that last year more beds were listed by home rental services such as Airbnb than in hotels. The number of rooms booked on the site rose from just over 100,000 to almost two million, according to data provided by the company. Sites like Airbnb, which lets homeowners rent out their homes for a fee by marketing them online, list around 278,000 properties in Spain. But Exceltur said online home rental services generated just 9.8 jobs per 100 tourist beds compared to 53.3 jobs per 100 tourist beds at a hotel causing concern to the industry as tourism accounts for one in nine jobs in the country.
Exceltur, a sector of Spanish Tourism,reported that last year more beds were listed by home rental services such as Airbnb than in hotels. The number of rooms booked on the site rose from just over 100,000 to almost two million, according to data provided by the company. But Exceltur said online home rental services generated just 9.8 jobs per 100 tourist beds compared to 53.3 jobs per 100 tourist beds at a hotel causing concern to the industry as tourism accounts for one in nine jobs in the country.