Spain: Aviturga presents Vitgal, its own reservation center for holiday homes

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

The new platform will allow owners to market their accommodations directly

The city of Sanxenxo claims to offer more tourist housing in a legal situation.

The Association of Tourist Housing of Galicia, Aviturga, recently presented its own reservation center, Vitgal, a platform in which the owners of holiday homes will be able to visualize and market their accommodations directly.

The new platform is the first of these characteristics that is created in Galicia and the only one that will be managed and directed by the owners of the homes.

The Emilia Pardo Bazán Auditorium was the stage in which Vitgal was presented, in a ceremony in which the President of Aviturga, Dulcinea Aguín, and the Mayor of Sanxenxo, Telmo Martín, who recognized the repercussion of this activity in the domestic economy of thousands of families in the municipality.

Aguín explained that this center was created to avoid owners and guests abusive fees charged by the large reservation platforms, all of them in the hands of multinationals with foreign capital and that in most cases add to the price of accommodation percentages ranging from 15 and 20% in concept of management or service commission. "In some cases these amounts are assumed in full by the owner and in others passed on in different percentage between this and the guest.In any case, the price of the stay is increased and the benefit is borne by a platform whose management is limited to offer our accommodations through the network to millions of customers and whose benefits go out not only of our autonomous community but of the Spanish State."

This new work tool therefore seeks to ensure greater profitability for owners of tourist homes, which in a high percentage (83% according to the information provided this week by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism) are individuals who intend to supplement their income with the vacation rental of a second home or even, in many cases, the only one they own, making seasonal rental compatible with residential use, as reflected in the decree approved by the Xunta in May 2017.

The platform, which starts its journey with a hundred homes throughout Galicia, will become a few months, according to Aviturga calculations, in the reference showcase of the holiday home in Galicia, as it will be open to all owners of this type of accommodations.

The distribution of this type of accommodation in Galicia is scattered and the concello that more houses of touristic use in legal situation offer is Sanxenxo, with 1,629 in the market, figure that surpasses to the one of the seven great capitals, with Santiago in front there is 566 properties of this type. The study made public last week by the Conselleria recognizes that they represent barely 0.5% of the entire Galician real estate park, where there are 300,000 empty homes.

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

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