REAT and TURESPAZO in Galicia: How to Register and File

A Galician holiday rental runs on two clocks at once: one of 24 hours, one of three months. The first belongs to the guest report. The second belongs to the Xunta de Galicia, and it is the one that catches out anyone who has just registered a first property.

The underlying confusion, and what almost no guide gets right, is that Galicia has two separate registration obligations, usually explained as if they were 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. Galicia isn’t the only region with its own channel: Catalonia and the Basque Country go a step further and don’t even use SES.HOSPEDAJES.

This post covers the regional side, starting with the register itself.

What the REAT is

The initials stand for Registro de Empresas e Actividades Turísticas, and it’s run by the Axencia Turismo de Galicia. It’s the official census of who may provide tourism services in the region: vacation rentals, hotels, rural houses, campsites, agencies.

For a vacation rental, being on the REAT has three practical effects:

• Without registration you can’t operate. Renting by the night while unregistered is an infringement of Galician tourism law¹, with the fines set out below.
• The number you’re assigned goes on every listing. Airbnb and Booking check for it and automatically pull down anything that doesn’t declare it.
• Registration is what gets you into TURESPAZO, which is how you later file occupancy data.

You apply with a DRIA (Responsible Declaration of Start of Activity) and a fee, and it isn’t instant: the administration reviews your paperwork before assigning the number. The full procedure is further down.

How to look up your REAT number

If the property is already registered but you can’t find the number, there are three places to look before calling anyone:

1. The registration decision the Xunta sent you when the application was approved. The assigned number is on it.
2. Your TURESPAZO account, with whichever properties you have linked to it.
3. The listing itself, if you already published it on Airbnb, Booking or Vrbo. The number has to be visible there by law.

If none of those turn it up, Galicia’s tourism intelligence service publishes the REAT accommodation directory as a downloadable Excel and CSV file². It isn’t a search box: you download the list and look inside it. Note too that establishments which asked not to appear are excluded, so not finding yourself there doesn’t mean you aren’t registered.

If you bought a property that was already operating, don’t assume the number transfers to you without paperwork: a change of ownership has to be reported to the register.

REAT and TURESPAZO are not the same thing

They get confused constantly because you use them together. REAT is the official database. TURESPAZO is the extranet of the Axencia Turismo de Galicia, at turespazo.turismo.gal, which is how you reach that database and how you report overnight stays each quarter.

Put another way: the REAT is where you are, TURESPAZO is how you get in.

TURESPAZO does not replace the SES.HOSPEDAJES guest 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 the start of the stay. 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 for the REAT and TURESPAZO

The regulatory layers come from both regional and national sources.

• Law 7/2011, of 27 October, on Galician Tourism (BOE-A-2011-19058)¹. The framework law: it establishes the duty to share data with the regional tourism authority and the penalty regime.
• Decree 196/2012, of 27 September. Creates the Agencia de Turismo de Galicia, the body that runs the REAT.
• Decree 12/2017, of 26 January. Specifically regulates vacation rentals (VUT) in Galicia and requires the DRIA (Responsible Declaration of Start of Activity)³.
• Royal Decree 1312/2024. Created the national NRA / NRUA registry, required from 1 July 2025 to advertise on platforms⁴. The Supreme Court annulled that single registry in ruling 620/2026 of 19 May, published in the BOE on 8 June 2026⁵, so in Galicia the number you are required to display today is the REAT one. The rest of the regional framework remains in force.

Who has to register in the REAT and file to TURESPAZO

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 (transfers of 30 days or more, under Decree 12/2017)³ 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 to TURESPAZO

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 for filing overnight stays in TURESPAZO

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 fee up front. Tariff 31.19.01 of the Xunta’s fee schedule sets €60.98 for classifying establishments of up to 10 accommodation units⁶, which is what a VUT is; check the current year’s rate before paying, because it is updated annually.
2. Wait for your REAT number. Registration is notified within a maximum of 15 days from the date the responsible declaration reaches the provincial area’s register, under article 43.2 of Decree 12/2017⁷. One nuance: you may run the activity from the moment you file the responsible declaration, without waiting for the registration itself.
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.

Filing overnight stays to TURESPAZO: manual or automated

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.

You should know where our limit is: RegistroViajero automates the guest report to SES.HOSPEDAJES, not the quarterly TURESPAZO return. They are different obligations and we don’t cover the Galician one. If you run a Galician VUT with us, you still upload the overnight stays to TURESPAZO yourself each quarter, or hand it to your accountant.

Penalties for REAT and TURESPAZO breaches

The penalty regime sits in articles 109 to 114 of Law 7/2011 on Galician tourism¹:

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 RITGA is and how it relates to your REAT number

Worth clearing up, because it circulates as though it were a pending change: RITGA (Rexistro de Información Turística de Galicia) is not a future register due to replace the REAT. It is the technological renewal of the REAT itself, which Turismo de Galicia carried out with the regional technology agency (Amtega) under the Plan Smart Turismo and announced on 25 May 2015⁸. What it did was modernise the official register of tourism resources, which had been running since the 1980s, unify the resource databases, and let that data feed other Turismo de Galicia applications⁸.

It is live, with its own portal at ritga.turismo.gal. For you that means the boring, good news: there is nothing to wait for and nothing to do. Your entry is still the REAT one, your number is still the one you display on listings, and the procedure is the one described in this post.

FAQ

What does REAT stand for? REAT stands for Registro de Empresas e Actividades Turísticas. It’s the register run by the Axencia Turismo de Galicia where the region’s accommodation and tourism businesses are listed.

Is the REAT number the same as the registration number platforms ask for? The REAT number and the registration number platforms ask for are not exactly the same. The REAT number is the regional one, and it’s what Galicia requires you to display. The NRUA was the national one, and the Supreme Court annulled it in 2026.

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

What if I only rent in summer? Renting only in summer changes nothing. 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 can delegate TURESPAZO to your property manager or accountant. 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? With one VUT in Galicia and another in Madrid you comply separately for each. 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? This does not replace the guest report you send to the police. They are independent, cumulative obligations, with different authorities and different deadlines.

Your minimum compliance checklist for a Galician VUT

If you run a VUT in Galicia:

• 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).
• Nothing to apply for in the national registry: the number that goes on your listings is the REAT one, because the Supreme Court annulled the NRUA single registry in 2026⁵.
• Eye on the SES error code list to catch rejections before they turn into fines.