TURESPAZO in Galicia: REAT Registration and Quarterly Reporting

If you run a vacation rental in Galicia, there are two registration obligations on the table, and most guides treat them as one.

The national one is the guest report sent to the police via SES.HOSPEDAJES within 24 hours, set by Royal Decree 933/2021. The regional one is the occupancy data the Xunta de Galicia requires every quarter through TURESPAZO. Different deadlines, different penalties, different authority.

This post covers the regional obligation.

What TURESPAZO is

TURESPAZO is the extranet of the Axencia Turismo de Galicia (the Galician Tourism Agency), accessible at turespazo.turismo.gal. It’s where you process the registration of your property in the REAT (Register of Tourism Companies and Activities) and where you submit quarterly occupancy data.

REAT and TURESPAZO are not the same thing

REAT is the official database. TURESPAZO is the web portal you use to interact with that database and to report overnight stays.

Without a REAT registration you can’t operate as a tourist rental in Galicia, and the REAT number assigned to you has to appear in every public listing. Airbnb and Booking now reject listings that don’t declare it.

This doesn’t replace the police report

The two obligations coexist; meeting one doesn’t excuse the other. SES.HOSPEDAJES sends each individual guest report to the Spanish Ministry of the Interior within 24 hours of check-in. TURESPAZO sends aggregated overnight-stay data (no ID numbers) to the Xunta once per quarter. Two authorities, two formats, two calendars. Each failure is penalized separately.

Legal framework

The regulatory layers come from both regional and national sources.

• Law 7/2011, of 27 October, on Galician Tourism (BOE-A-2011-19058). The framework law: it establishes the duty to share data with the regional tourism authority and the penalty regime.
• Law 2/2019, of 22 February, on Galician Tourism. Updates parts of the earlier framework.
• Decree 196/2012, of 27 September. Sets up the REAT and its enrollment procedures.
• Decree 12/2017, of 26 January. Specifically regulates vacation rentals (VUT) in Galicia and requires the DRIA (Responsible Declaration of Start of Activity).
• Royal Decree 1312/2024. National rule creating the NRA / NRUA, required from 1 July 2025 to advertise on platforms. It coexists with the above; it doesn’t replace it.

Who has to register

Three main profiles fall in:

• Owners of vacation rentals (VUT) registered in REAT.
• Tourism companies marketing VUTs in Galicia (property managers, platforms acting as agencies).
• Other regulated establishments (hotels, hostels, rural houses) with their own formats inside TURESPAZO.

Long-term residential rentals (more than 32 days under Decree 12/2017) and room rentals not advertised as tourist accommodation are out of scope. This post focuses on VUT, which is the most common case.

What data has to be reported

Each overnight stay is reported with five fields, not the per-guest detail you already send to SES:

• Check-in date.
• Check-out date.
• Country of residence of the guest.
• Sex of the guest.
• Province of residence, if they live in Spain.

Plus the property identifier (the VUT “signature” TURESPAZO assigns you when you enroll the property).

Name, ID number, and document are not submitted. That’s what SES.HOSPEDAJES is for. TURESPAZO is public statistics.

Deadlines

Four submissions per year, one for each natural quarter once it closes.

The exact closing dates are published as notices inside your TURESPAZO account. The law doesn’t fix a specific day, so the operating calendar comes from those notices, not from the gazette. Typically you have a few weeks of the following quarter to upload the data for the one that just closed.

The first time around, don’t rely on memory: open your account and check the active notice.

How to enroll in TURESPAZO, step by step

1. Get your REAT registration done. You need the DRIA (Responsible Declaration of Start of Activity), first-occupancy license or habitability certificate, civil liability insurance, and to pay the corresponding fee (around €60.98 as of writing; check the current rate on the Xunta’s electronic office before paying).
2. Wait for your REAT number. The agency reviews documentation within up to 15 business days and, if everything is in order, issues the number.
3. Request TURESPAZO access at turespazo.turismo.gal/es/web/turespazo/login → “Create account”, with your ID and REAT number.
4. Link each VUT to your account. You’ll get a VUT signature (a technical identifier) used to upload data manually or automatically.

Manual or automated submission

There are two ways to deliver the data:

• Manual. You upload a web form per stay or a batch file from your TURESPAZO account. It works for small volumes; past a few dozen stays per quarter it gets tedious.
• Automated. Through an integration with property-management software. A few vendors (PARTEE, Chekin, CheckinScan) already offer it.

At RegistroViajero we’re finishing the direct TURESPAZO integration. As of today, we generate the file in the format the platform accepts and you upload it yourself. If you need automated submission right now, tell whoever onboards your trial and we’ll notify you when the integration goes live. We don’t want you finding out it shipped because you got fined.

Penalties for non-compliance

The penalty regime sits in articles 110–114 of Law 7/2011 on Galician tourism:

Operating without REAT registration, failing to show the REAT number on listings, or not reporting overnight stays to TURESPAZO are typically classified as serious. Very serious is reserved for repeat offenses or cases involving harm to the guest.

All of this is independent of RD 933/2021: a national fine for failing to submit to SES.HOSPEDAJES does not cancel a regional fine for failing to report stays to the Xunta. Both can land in the same case file.

What’s RITGA and when it kicks in

In 2025, as part of the Plan Smart Turismo, the Xunta announced a new registry: the RITGA (Galician Tourism Information Registry). The plan is for it to replace REAT and also include restaurants and tourism services, not only lodging.

TURESPAZO will remain the access portal. There’s no public timeline for its entry into force yet; when there is, we’ll update this post.

FAQ

Do I need to register on TURESPAZO if I only rent one room as a tourist? If your activity falls under Galicia’s VUT or regulated tourism establishment regime, yes. The obligation doesn’t depend on size.

What if I only rent in summer? Same answer. The obligation is per natural quarter; if the quarter has zero stays, you report zero, but you report.

Can I delegate TURESPAZO to my property manager or accountant? Yes. You authorize the third party from the platform itself and they log in with their own credentials on your behalf.

What if I have one VUT in Galicia and another in Madrid? For the Galician one, REAT + TURESPAZO + SES.HOSPEDAJES. For the Madrid one, only SES.HOSPEDAJES; Madrid has no regional equivalent today.

Does this replace the guest report I send to the police? No. They are independent, cumulative obligations, with different authorities and different deadlines. See the legal framework section.

Action checklist

If you run a VUT in Galicia, the minimum list:

• REAT registration done (DRIA, documents, fee).
• REAT number visible on every listing (Airbnb, Booking, Vrbo).
• Active TURESPAZO account with a signature assigned to each VUT.
• Quarterly overnight-stay reports (check-in, check-out, sex, country, Spanish province).
• Parallel compliance with RD 933/2021 (guest report to SES.HOSPEDAJES within 24 hours).
• NRUA if you advertise on platforms (Royal Decree 1312/2024).
• Eye on the SES error code list to catch rejections before they turn into fines.

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