{"id":3046,"date":"2025-01-03T05:57:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T05:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casaruralconperrosgirona.com\/rip-rural-tourism-by-mastorrencito\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:04:12","slug":"rip-rural-tourism-by-mastorrencito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mastorrencito.com\/en\/rip-rural-tourism-by-mastorrencito\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Rural Tourism by MasTorrencito"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
There was a time when rural tourism was a real luxury for the soul. Imagine: a stone house in a lost corner of the world, a homemade breakfast with grandma’s jam, and a silence broken only by the singing of the birds. It was almost a revolutionary act: disconnecting, breathing fresh air and feeling part of a landscape that seemed taken from a fairy tale. <\/p>\n\n
Today, the landscape has changed. And we’re not talking about a small plot twist, no: it’s as if rural tourism had mutated into a kind of Frankenstein industry<\/strong> that threatens to devour the very towns that welcomed it. But let’s go for parts, because there’s a lot of fabric to cut. \ud83d\ude24 <\/p>\n\n Do you know how many tourist accommodations there are in Vilademuls? Toma asiento: 30 rural houses and 32 HUTs (Housing for Tourist Use)<\/strong> . For a small town, it is as if each house had its own business. And in Camprodon, things do not improve: 11 rural houses<\/strong> and, attention, \u00a1 183 HUTs<\/strong> ! But what is this? A competition of who can put more beds per square meter? <\/p>\n\n And of course, it’s not just the quantity. It is that the HUTs do not play by the same rules as us, those who manage real rural houses. While we deal with: <\/p>\n\n HUTs simply declare what they earn as \u00abextra income\u00bb in their income<\/strong> . No freelancers, no VAT, no nothing. It’s as if they were ghost businesses! <\/p>\n\n Now imagine that you live in a town of 300 inhabitants. Until a few years ago, the worst thing that could happen was that a chicken sneaked into your garden. But now, every weekend, that town turns into a kind of traveling fair with 1,000 people<\/strong> who come, occupy, get dirty and then leave. <\/p>\n\n The result:<\/p>\n\n This is where the big elephant in the room<\/strong> comes in: booking portals such as Booking, Airbnb, Expedia and others. These platforms have turned tourism into a globalized market where anything goes. But do you know where they are registered? In tax havens<\/strong> . They don’t pay taxes, but we, the little entrepreneurs, continue to bleed for every euro we earn. <\/p>\n\n On top of that, we have to charge the tourist the famous tourist tax<\/strong> . One euro per night and per person which, it is supposed, should be returned to the town. But where does that money end up? Spoiler: not in the village<\/strong> . It is as if they made us collect a revolutionary tax that does not benefit anyone, except the bureaucratic machinery. <\/p>\n\n HUTs are like that neighbor who makes bottles at home and never collects anything. They operate under a kind of \u00abfree will\u00bb, because: <\/p>\n\n If that wasn’t enough, many HUTs are illegal<\/strong> . In Girona, for example, there are dozens (if not hundreds) of accommodations that are not even registered. And who controls this? Exactly: nobody. <\/p>\n\n If we continue like this, this has no future. Rural tourism as we know it is in danger of extinction. Why? Because the current model is not sustainable<\/strong> : <\/p>\n\n In the end, the only ones who win are the big platforms and the owners who play the fiscal hideout. And that is not rural tourism. That is covert exploitation<\/strong> . <\/p>\n\n We cannot stand idly by. Here are some ideas to save what is left of rural tourism: <\/p>\n\n Rural tourism still has hope, but only if we act now. Because if not, what is today a refuge for the soul will become a nightmare scenario. And nobody wants that.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n In short: if we don’t change course, rural tourism, as we know it, will end up being a memory. The solution? Regulation, respect and, above all, balance. Because towns are meant to be lived in… not to be blown up. \ud83c\udf3f \ud83d\udc94 <\/p>\n\n From MasTorrencito we wish you a good day and may your dogs accompany you!!!!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n \u2014\u2013 The end of rural tourism: chronicle of a death announced There was a time when rural tourism was a real luxury for the soul. Imagine: a stone house in a lost corner of the world, a homemade breakfast with grandma’s jam, and a silence broken only by the singing of the birds. It was almost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,28,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-of-interest","category-blog","category-mastorrencitos-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n\n1. The problem of numbers: more houses than inhabitants<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n
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\n\n2. The impact on the towns: welcome to rural chaos<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n
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\n\n3. Fiscal inequality: David versus Goliath<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n
\n\n4. The trap of HUTs: a business without controls<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n
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\n\n5. Long-term consequences: an unsustainable model<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n
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\n\n6. And now what?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n
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Si<\/a> quieres, puede ver nuestros bonos para fines de semana, bonos jubilados<\/strong> ,<\/a> a un precio incre\u00edble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"