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    Palma, the capital city of Majorca, Spain will ban holiday rentals beginning in July in response to resident complaints about increasing rent costs due to tourism. Studies show the number of illegally rented tourist apartments has grown 50% in recent years, and 48% of apartments are available as tourist rentals for 7-9 months per year, limiting housing availability. The ban aims to protect residents from rising rents by only allowing tourists to stay in detached homes or residences where families live permanently. The city hopes this will increase long-term housing availability for locals.

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    Palma, the capital city of Majorca, Spain will ban holiday rentals beginning in July in response to resident complaints about increasing rent costs due to tourism. Studies show the number of illegally rented tourist apartments has grown 50% in recent years, and 48% of apartments are available as tourist rentals for 7-9 months per year, limiting housing availability. The ban aims to protect residents from rising rents by only allowing tourists to stay in detached homes or residences where families live permanently. The city hopes this will increase long-term housing availability for locals.

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    Palma, the capital city of Majorca, Spain will ban holiday rentals beginning in July in response to resident complaints about increasing rent costs due to tourism. Studies show the number of illegally rented tourist apartments has grown 50% in recent years, and 48% of apartments are available as tourist rentals for 7-9 months per year, limiting housing availability. The ban aims to protect residents from rising rents by only allowing tourists to stay in detached homes or residences where families live permanently. The city hopes this will increase long-term housing availability for locals.

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    HEAAADERLOGORIGHT

    PRE-INTERMEDIATE (A2-B1)

    SPANISH CITY TO BAN HOLIDAY RENTALS

    Spain’s Palma to ban holiday rentals


    24th of April, 2018

    1.
    Palma, on the island of Majorca, will be the first an important way for people to make extra income.
    Spanish city to stop people renting their apartments Another organisation said that restaurants and shops
    to tourists. might have to close, and people might also lose their
    2.
    The capital of the popular island will begin the ban in jobs.
    July, after residents complained that rent costs were 7.
    Visitors will only be able to stay in detached homes
    always going up, mostly because of the number of where one family live. Tourists also can’t rent
    tourists that rent apartments for a short time through apartments on farmland, close to the airport, or in
    websites and apps. areas where there are offices and factories. The city
    3.
    Palma’s mayor said that other cities that have big of Palma will be a "single zone", so holiday rentals
    problems with tourism can copy what Palma is doing. won’t happen in any area of town. Mayor Antoni
    Noguera said the decision is "to protect residents."
    4.
    Studies show that in Spain, the number of apartments
    rented to tourists without a licence grew by 50%
    8.
    Studies show that 48% of tourist apartments are
    between 2015 and 2017. In Palma, which has available to rent for seven to nine months in a year, so
    the eighth largest population of all Spanish cities, many locals can’t rent an apartment for a long period
    only 645 properties have the correct holiday rental of time.
    licence. 9.
    In 2017, Palma banned people advertising flats
    5.
    City officials say that tourism is the main reason for without a licence, and warned flat owners and apps
    higher rent costs, but it’s not the only one. Workers about big fines if they broke the law. Barcelona did a
    who commute from other parts of Spain also caused similar thing.
    average rents to increase by 40% since 2013. Prices 10.
    82 million foreign tourists visited Spain last year, with
    have gone up as there are not many apartments Catalonia and the Balearic Islands the most popular
    available to rent for a longer time, and there are more destinations.
    people that want them. 11.
    The news about the ban pleased Joan Forteza, the
    6.
    Business organisations said that the ban will not be president of a Palma organisation, after more than
    good for families that need help with money. A local 6,000 people signed a document asking the local
    organisation for small businesses said that holiday government to do something about the problem.
    rentals help to bring more money into the city, and are Sources: BBC News, El Pais (English version)

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