PEUAT
Pla especial urbanístic d'allotjaments turístics — Barcelona's tourist accommodation plan
Definition
The PEUAT is Barcelona's special urban plan for tourist accommodation: the city-level planning rule that sets where, and under what conditions, hotels, tourist flats and other tourist accommodation can operate. Its current version was definitively approved by the city council on 23 December 2021.
Why it matters
Catalan tourism law says what a tourist flat or a shared home is; the PEUAT decides whether one can exist at a given address in Barcelona. Meeting the Catalan definition is not enough on its own.
The 2021 update prohibits renting rooms in homes to tourists for stays shorter than a month across the whole city. Rentals of rooms for longer than a month, as somewhere to live, are outside that ban.
A listing platform letting you publish a room is not permission. The PEUAT applies to the address, whatever a platform's settings allow — so check the plan before the listing, not after.
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