Renting a tourist dwelling without your region’s licence is not a minor slip: it is an offence under regional tourism law, and in several communities the fines reach six figures. This guide gathers the amounts community by community and clears up a confusion that gets expensive.
The confusion worth clearing: two different fines
There are two penalty regimes that have nothing to do with each other, and mixing them up leads to surprises:
- Fine for renting without a tourist licence. Imposed by your autonomous community for operating without being entered in its registry. It depends on each community’s tourism law and is the one in the table below.
- Fine for not filing the guest report. Imposed by the Ministry of the Interior for breaching RD 933/2021. It depends on Ley Orgánica 4/2015 and runs from €100 to €30,000. We detail it in RD 933/2021 penalties.
They stack: you can have your licence in order and still be fined for not filing the reports, and vice versa. This page covers the first. To understand which licence you need and where to apply, start from the tourist licence by region guide.
Fines for renting without a licence, by region
Regional tourism laws grade offences as minor (leve), serious (grave) and very serious (muy grave). Operating without registration is usually classed as serious (sometimes very serious for repeat offences or for clandestine provision of the service), so the middle bracket is the one that matters most in practice.
| Community | Minor | Serious | Very serious | Law |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andalucía | up to €2,000 | €2,001–18,000 | €18,001–150,000 | Ley 13/2011 |
| Aragón | €60–600 | €601–6,000 | €6,001–90,000 | Decreto 1/2023 |
| Asturias | €150–1,500 | €1,501–15,000 | €15,001–100,000 | Ley 7/2001 |
| Illes Balears | up to €5,000 | €5,001–50,000 | €50,001–500,000 | Ley 8/2012 (D-ley 4/2025) |
| Canarias | up to €1,500 | €1,501–30,000 | €30,001–300,000 | Ley 7/1995 |
| Cantabria | €250–1,500 | €1,501–15,000 | €15,001–75,000 | Decreto 50/2025 |
| Castilla-La Mancha | up to €600 | €601–6,010 | €6,011–60,010 | Ley 8/1999 |
| Castilla y León | €100–900 | €901–9,000 | €9,001–90,000 | Ley 14/2010 |
| Cataluña | up to €3,000 | €3,001–60,000 | €60,001–600,000 | Ley 13/2002 |
| Comunitat Valenciana | up to €10,000 | €10,001–100,000 | €100,001–600,000 | Ley 15/2018 |
| Extremadura | up to €600 | €601–6,000 | €6,001–60,000 | Ley 2/2011 |
| Galicia | up to €900 | €901–9,000 | €9,001–90,000 | Ley 7/2011 |
| Madrid | up to €3,000 | €3,001–30,000 | €30,001–300,000 | Ley 1/1999 |
| Murcia | up to €1,000 | €1,001–10,000 | €10,001–150,000 | Ley 12/2013 |
| Navarra | up to €1,200 | up to €9,000 | up to €75,000 | Ley Foral 7/2003 |
| País Vasco | up to €10,000 | €10,001–100,000 | €100,001–600,000 | Ley 13/2016 |
| La Rioja | €150–1,200 | €1,201–12,000 | €12,001–150,000 | Ley 2/2001 |
| Melilla | up to €750 | €751–1,500 | €1,501–3,000 | Regulation (D. 351/2010) |
| Ceuta | check locally | check locally | check locally | Tourism Regulation (2010) |
Ceuta is governed by a regulation, not its own tourism law, and its schedule of amounts is not clearly set: confirm it with the autonomous city. One case worth flagging: Balears introduced, with Decreto-ley 4/2025, a specific bracket of €30,001 to €50,000 for marketing stays in dwellings that have not filed the DRIAT, precisely the case of operating without registration.
The other consequences (which are not a fine)
The financial penalty is not the only thing, nor always the worst:
- Listing removal. Airbnb, Booking and the rest require a valid registration number and remove listings that don’t publish it. No listing, no bookings.
- Cessation of activity. Many regional laws allow ordering the closure or temporary shutdown of the dwelling as an accessory penalty, on top of the fine.
- Repeat offences. Reoffending usually raises the bracket (from serious to very serious) and can lead to permanent closure and cancellation of the registration.
How to avoid it
It is simpler than the table suggests: registering the dwelling is usually a free declaración responsable. The step-by-step by region is in the cluster’s guide.
And once you operate with your licence in order, the daily obligation remains: the guest report. That is the part RegistroViajero automates, so the second fine, the Ministry’s, never catches you. Start with the SES.HOSPEDAJES guide.
The amounts come from the regional tourism laws in force on the publication date and may be updated. The exact classification of each case depends on the circumstances; always verify the detail with your community’s law.
