(3 Jun 2025)
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Madrid, Spain – 3 June 2025
1. Wide of Minister for Social and Consumer Rights and 2030 Agenda, Pablo Bustinduy, working at a desk in the Consumer Rights Minister’s office
2. Mid of Bustinduy at desk
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Pablo Bustinduy, Spanish Minister for Social and Consumer Rights:
"Well , tourism is for sure a vital part of the Spanish economy. It’s a strategic and very important sector, but as in every other economic activity, it must be conducted in a sustainable way. It cannot jeopardize the constitutional rights of the Spanish people. Their right to housing but also their right to well-being, their right to live in sustainable environments, in livable cities and now there is abundant research and evidence about the fact that short-term tourist rentals and the conversion of residential housing into tourist apartments are putting pressure on the right to housing, are driving up prices on rental market and are displacing local populations."
4. Close of Bustinduy during interview
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Pablo Bustinduy, Spanish Minister for Social and Consumer Rights:
"Well, the price of rental units in the biggest Spanish cities have driven up, have shot up by over 100% in the last decade alone. And this has been the period where this economic sector of short-term tourist rentals has exploded. Just in the city of Madrid, we have over 15,000 illegal tourist apartments. And obviously there is a correlation between these two facts. It’s not a linear relation. It’s not the only factor affecting it. There are many others, but it is obviously one of the elements that is contributing not only to driving up rent prices, but also to voiding our urban centres."
6. Bustinduy at desk
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Pablo Bustinduy, Spanish Minister for Social and Consumer Rights:
"A balance must be found between the constitutional rights of the Spanish people and economic activities in general. So what we’re trying to defend and preserve is well this fact because for many years we have grown used to this idea that powerful corporations and multinational corporations have the power, the market power, to establish the norms of economic activities and economic relations. Well we’re trying to rebalance that power to preserve consumer rights and to ensure that economic activities are conducted in conditions of transparency and fairness so as to preserve the rights of people and not just to protect the profits of immensely powerful corporations."
8. Bustinduy at desk
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Pablo Bustinduy, Spanish Minister for Social and Consumer Rights:
"I think that guaranteeing that tourist activities proceed in a fair, transparent and legal context is something that far from damaging tourism revenues will actually improve them. It will encourage longer stays, it will encourage responsible tourism, and it will preserve everything that we have in this wonderful country – which is, you know, the reason why so many people want to come here."
10. Pan of office to Bustinduy working at desk
STORYLINE:
Spain’s government last month began a crackdown on Airbnb, a move aimed at sending the message that the Spanish economy and its housing market weren’t a “free for all” that valued profits over the rule of law.
That’s according to Consumer Rights Minister Pablo Bustinduy who on Tuesday defended his government’s order that Airbnb remove almost 66,000 holiday rentals from the platform that the government said were flouting local regulations.
AP video by Iain Sullivan
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