If your professional activity revolves around tourist accommodation activities or lodging activities, you will surely have heard of Royal Decree 933/2021 . This regulates the obligations on the part of those responsible for tourist accommodation with respect to the documentary registration of guests.
Pointing out important aspects directly from the Official State Gazette (BOE) is a tortuous task that, due to the density of the content, we can miss relevant aspects. For this reason we are going to specify the crucial information to take into account to comply with the regulations .
If you don't know what actions you should take to comply with the law, stay with us and we will tell you the most relevant things .
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Royal Decree 933/2021 refers to the obligations of documentary registration and information in activities related to accommodation and intermediation in the rental of properties for tourist purposes, as well as in the rental of vehicles .
Its main objective is to improve public security, facilitating the identification of users and hosting and intermediation activities to prevent illegal acts.
Royal Decree 933/2021 applies to natural or legal persons that offer tourist accommodation services , including hotels, hostels, pensions, shelters, tourist apartments, campsites and any other type of short stay accommodation. also applies to companies and people who carry out intermediation activities in the rental of real estate for tourist purposes , such as online platforms or agencies that facilitate the reservation or rental of property for vacations or other short -term stays.
On the other hand, it influences motor vehicle rental companies , which includes car rental, motorcycles, vans and other vehicles.
The RD 933/2021 entered into force on January 2, 2023 , but after an adaptation period until June 2, 2023 and two extensions (1st extension on January 31, 2024 and 2nd extension on October 31, 2024 ), its validity period began on December 2, 2024 .
As of December 2, 2024, the person in charge of whose business is related to the activities described above, it must begin to make communications with the authorities, as described in the annexes of RD 933/2021. If the decreed obligations are not met, sanctions may be incurred for not complying with the obligations .
One of the most relevant modifications when communicating the registration of travelers before the authorities is the change of the platform for such data communication . With the previous regulations, the part of travelers is carried out through hosts of the Civil Guard or through the National Police Webpol .
With the implementation of the RD 933/2021 the Ministry of Interior has promoted the SES.HOSPEDAJES platform which replaces the previous platforms when establishing the communication of guest data with the authorities.
RD 933/2021 also updates the amount of data and information that tourist establishments must collect when registering guests . The most notable are the following:
Royal Decree 933/2021 establishes that tourist accommodation service providers must collect a series of personal data from travelers in order to comply with identification and registration obligations. The new data to be collected within the traveler report would be the following:
In Check-in Scan, we have integration with the SES.HOSPEDAJES platform to be able to send the communications of the travelers in a completely automatical way complying with the regulations of the RD 933/2021.
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As we have previously commented, if the obligations decreed as of December 2, 2024 are not met, a series of infractions may be incurred that may entail penalties . To determine the sanctions according to the infraction committed, the provisions of Organic Law 4/2015 will be applied. The types of infractions committed will be penalized depending on their level of severity.
fine of between €100 and €600 will be incurred .
According to Organic Law 4/2015, the following are considered a serious infraction:
fine of between €600 and €30,000 will be incurred.
