The Ministry of Tourism considered that the initiative is key to regulating “unfair competition” with the formal hotel industry.
He Deputy Minister of Tourism, Remo Monzeglio, expressed his expectation that the bill to regulate the temporary rentals, which today is in the Senate, be approved before the end of the year to combat what he described as “unfair competition.”
Monzeglio expect prompt treatment in Parliament of the initiative to “organize the market” and trusts that it can be applied in the country, although not for this summer season, but only for the next one, although the project aroused criticism from the platforms.
According to what the leader told Radio Montecarlo, Ministry of Tourism proposed moving forward with the project from the beginning. “It was practically the first law that we put into consideration, because it tends to regulate a sector that, due to the platforms, lends itself to some practices that are not desirable,” he warned.
The text is found in the Senate and then it should be voted on Deputies. “We hope for a quick treatment to see if we can apply it next season,” he admitted. Monzeglio.
Organize the market and offer greater controls
The vice minister maintained that the expectation is to “organize the market” and specified that “it does not target that man or woman who rents in Easter or a month in summer to cover their basic expenses” and clarified: “It is for people who have several apartments and rent them throughout the year.”
Along these lines, he considered that this “becomes a practice that is not the best, because they compete unfairly with the formal hotel industry” and warned: “In addition, they provide services that do not have any type of control.”
Along the same lines, the president of the Association of Hotels and Restaurants of Uruguay, Francisco Rodríguez expressed his support by pointing out that “he defends the sector and the tourist, because he protects them.”
“Whoever offers a service has to be registered and also the people who occupy the place,” he indicated. Rodriguezwho considered that “it is the minimum requirement to avoid problems such as human trafficking and terrorism, which does not happen in the hotel industry but in that limbo of hundreds of thousands of rooms.”
Source: Ambito
