Tutorials and guides on managing tourist accommodation

Tutorials and articles to run your holiday rental better, beyond the paperwork: pricing strategy, guest communication, productivity and the day-to-day business decisions of managing one or several tourist properties.

A property manager with a folder under his arm thoughtfully watches a spice stall in a Spanish village square while the stallholder swaps the baskets' price flags; a cat walks past the stall

Pricing Tool or Property Manager for Your Spanish Rental?

A working property manager on what PriceLabs and company get right, where their prices fail, and why the real question is not app versus person.

July 2, 2026

Cobalt-blue azulejo: in a second-floor office above a Spanish street, the manager sorts coins and notes into two separate piles on her desk beside an adding machine; through the open window, two floors below, a guest walks away down the cobbles with his suitcase; the cat sleeps on the sill

Tourist Rental Taxes in Spain: IRPF, VAT and the AEAT Forms

What you owe the Spanish tax office for a tourist rental, and the single cut that decides it: services typical of the hotel industry. IRPF, VAT, transfer tax, and which forms survived the end of modelo 179.

September 4, 2026

Cobalt-blue azulejo: on the doorstep of a whitewashed Spanish house, the outgoing owner hands a heavy ring of iron keys to the incoming manager; the house cat sleeps on the threshold between them and a handcart with tied boxes waits at the curb

Changing ownership of a Spanish holiday rental: licence and SES

In Spain the licence does not always travel with the house: in the Valencia region it does not survive the sale, in Catalonia it follows the property. And SES.HOSPEDAJES has no transfer procedure at all: it is deregistration plus a fresh sign-up. The complete guide to not ending up paperless mid-handover.

August 28, 2026

Cobalt-blue azulejo: in a Spanish hotel reception, a father holds his small son up to drop a coin into the house-shaped money box standing on the counter; the manager watches from behind it with her folder while the mother waits beside their suitcases

Tourist taxes in Spain by region: rates and who collects

Only two Spanish regions charge a tourist tax across their whole territory today, but the map is moving fast: Catalonia just raised it, the Basque Country has a start date and Asturias is in parliament. All nineteen territories, current amounts, who is exempt and what a lodging must actually do.

August 21, 2026

A woman property manager with a folder under her arm walks a Spanish street between two shop windows of framed apartment portraits, one sparse and carefully arranged with plants and one crowded with frames and pennants with a clerk behind the counter; both windows have an empty slot; a cat watches down the street

Airbnb or Booking? Where to List Your Rental in Spain

Carlos has managed nearly identical apartments on both platforms. He explains which one earned more, why he would start with Airbnb and when Booking makes sense.

July 16, 2026

A property manager with a folder under his arm thoughtfully compares a row of nearly identical old cars, each with a blank price card on its windshield, while the seller swaps one of the cards; a cat between the wheels, with rooftops, a church tower and pennant bunting behind

How to Price a Vacation Rental in Spain

Carlos Chica walks through the six pricing mistakes he sees most among owners and shares the strategy his agency uses: a seasonal reference price, adjusted progressively.

July 9, 2026

Editorial illustration: a property manager wakes up in a sun-filled Mediterranean room with open wooden shutters, ready to start the day

Who We Are and Why We Built RegistroViajero

Who we are, why we built RegistroViajero, and what's different about a tool made by managers who used to file guest reports by hand.

April 16, 2026