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 two obligations are often explained as if they were one. They are not. The guest report goes to the Spanish Ministry of the Interior through SES.HOSPEDAJES, guest by guest, within 24 hours. That is the national obligation set by Royal Decree 933/2021, and it applies in Galicia exactly as everywhere else in Spain. The occupancy data goes to the Axencia Turismo de Galicia through TURESPAZO, aggregated and once per quarter. That is the regional one.

Galicia has no police channel of its own. Catalonia and the Basque Country do, and there the report goes to the Mossos d’Esquadra or the Ertzaintza instead of to SES.HOSPEDAJES. In Galicia the report still goes to the Ministry, and TURESPAZO sits on top of it as tourism statistics.

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:

• The registration code 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.
• Every change to the data you declared goes back to the register, a change of ownership included.

There is one nuance that saves weeks of waiting, and it is usually told backwards: what authorises you to rent is not the registration, it is having filed the responsible declaration.

“The submission of the responsible declaration, under the conditions laid down in this decree, authorises the pursuit of the tourist activity of a dwelling for tourist use, without prejudice to compliance with the other obligations required by any other applicable rules.”

What you cannot do is rent without having filed anything. Running a tourism activity with no responsible declaration is a serious infringement under Galician law², and a serious one runs from €901 to €9,000.

Advertising doesn’t require waiting either, because the law accepts a provisional stand-in:

“All advertising or promotional activity carried out through any medium or channel must display the corresponding registration code in the Register of Tourism Businesses and Activities of the Autonomous Community of Galicia or, where it is not available, the code issued by the Administration certifying that the responsible declaration has been submitted.”

While the registration is being resolved, the Airbnb listing carries that DRIA filing code, not a blank space.

How to look up your REAT number

Once the property is registered you are handling two different identifiers, and mixing them up costs you an afternoon:

• The REAT registration code is the one that goes on listings.
• The signatura identifies your establishment to Turismo de Galicia, and it is the data you are asked for when creating a TURESPAZO account. You look it up in the Consulta de signaturas section of the extranet.

If what you need is the registration code, there are three places to look before calling anyone:

1. Open the registration decision the Xunta sent you when the application was approved. The assigned number is on it.
2. Log into your TURESPAZO account and check the properties you have linked to it.
3. Look at your own listing, 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 file⁴. 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 owner changes the data in the responsible declaration. Those changes have to be reported to the provincial area of the Axencia Turismo de Galicia within a maximum of 10 days, so they can be recorded in the REAT¹.

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. The Galician decree takes this for granted: when it regulates how vacation rentals operate, it creates no regional report of its own, it points at whatever national rule is in force.

“Dwellings for tourist use must comply with the rules in force on guest registration books and guest entry reports.”

Those rules in force are RD 933/2021, and its channel is SES.HOSPEDAJES. What TURESPAZO adds in Galicia is a separate obligation, with a different recipient and a different clock:

Each failure is penalized separately, and a fine from one administration does not absorb the other’s.

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)². The framework law: it sets the definition of a dwelling for tourist use, the quarterly duty to supply occupancy data, 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)¹.
• Royal Decree 1312/2024. Created the national NRA / NRUA registry, required from 1 July 2025 to advertise on platforms⁵.

That last one no longer applies. The Supreme Court annulled the single registry in ruling 620/2026 of 19 May, published in the BOE on 8 June 2026⁶. So in Galicia the number you are required to display today is the REAT one, and 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.

The first two profiles do not split the obligation, they share it. When someone other than the owner markets the property, Galician law binds both of them to the Xunta:

“Owners and/or marketers shall be bound to the tourism administration […] and shall be jointly and severally liable to it, including the obligation to take out and keep in force civil liability insurance.”

For an agency, the phrase that changes the risk is jointly and severally. The Xunta can claim the whole breach from you, civil liability insurance included, without having to go after the owner first. Whatever your management contract says splits the cost between you afterwards, but it does not decide who the administration may come to. In practice, the insurance and the REAT registration code have to be checked property by property before you sign the management agreement, not when the enforcement file arrives.

Before filing anything, check that your case is in scope. Galician law defines a dwelling for tourist use by two criteria that stack:

• Short stay. The transfer of use is shorter than thirty consecutive days. Above that, the rental falls outside the tourism regime.
• Repetition. The dwelling is let out two or more times within a one-year period.

Miss either one and there is no VUT: no REAT, no TURESPAZO, no number on listings.

There is a further requirement, one of object rather than duration, and it is what rules room lets out. The marketing of a dwelling for tourist use, says article 65 bis.2:

”[…] must consist of the temporary transfer of the use and enjoyment of the dwelling in its entirety, and contracts by the room may not be entered into, nor may users holding different contracts coincide inside the dwelling.”

A single room, therefore, cannot be registered as a VUT in Galicia however many times it is let. Running it means fitting the activity into another category of Galician tourism law, with its own registration regime.

What stays prohibited is advertising a property that falls outside the tourism regime on tourism sales channels without stating expressly that it is not tourist accommodation³. Long-term residential rentals and room lets land there.

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 signatura Turismo de Galicia uses to tell your establishment apart.

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 frequency isn’t a portal habit, it’s in the law:

“Likewise, tourism businesses or the owners who market dwellings for tourist use must provide the public instrumental body competent in tourism matters with the occupancy data of the dwellings for tourist use on a quarterly basis.”

That public instrumental body is the Axencia Turismo de Galicia, and its counter is TURESPAZO. What the law does not fix is the day: it says quarterly and stops there.

The exact closing dates are published as notices inside your TURESPAZO account, so the operating calendar comes from there, 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

Before opening any form, gather the paperwork the responsible declaration obliges you to have on hand¹:

• A document evidencing the applicant’s legal personality.
• Title or contract proving the dwelling is freely at your disposal.
• Sufficient title to market it, if someone else markets it for you.
• First-occupancy license, habitability certificate, or an equivalent certificate.
• Civil liability insurance covering bodily injury, material damage, and financial loss to guests.
• A 24-hour phone number for handling guest issues.

With that on the table, the procedure is six steps:

1. Pay the fee before filing anything. Tariff 31.19.01 of the Xunta’s fee schedule sets €60.98 for establishments of up to 10 accommodation units, which a VUT is⁷. It is updated annually.
2. File the responsible declaration of start of activity on the standard form in annex V of Decree 12/2017, with the provincial area of the Axencia Turismo de Galicia where the property sits¹.
3. Keep the registration notification, which is the document your REAT code arrives on.
4. Look up your establishment’s signatura in the Consulta de signaturas section of the extranet.
5. Create the user through the Nuevo usuario option on the TURESPAZO home screen. The two mandatory fields are the owner’s NIF and the signatura of one of the establishments you own⁸.
6. Log in with the password emailed to you and change it for one only you know⁸.

The registration notification has a maximum deadline, and the decree sets it:

“That registration shall be notified to the interested party within a maximum period of 15 days from the date the responsible declaration is entered in the register of the corresponding provincial area of the Agencia Turismo de Galicia.”

Fifteen days is the ceiling on the notification, not a closed season. The activity starts with the filing of the responsible declaration, not with the registration.

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. The extranet has its own section on integrating VUT occupancy data through third-party companies, and a few vendors (PARTEE, Chekin, CheckinScan) already offer it.

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 tourism². Article 114 sets the brackets:

The exact classification is decided by the body running the case, but the types the three usual failures fall under are these:

• Operating without having filed the responsible declaration: serious. Article 110.1, providing tourism services with no responsible declaration and no required authorisation.
• Not displaying the registration code on listings: minor. Article 109.2.b), breaching the duty to display the signs, notices, and documentation tourism rules require.
• Not reporting overnight stays to TURESPAZO: minor. Article 109.2 for the law’s formal obligations, and 109.11 as the catch-all for any breach that is neither serious nor very serious.

Very serious is a different league: diverting public grants, offering services that violate fundamental rights, or repeat serious offences. Repetition requires more than one infringement of the same kind within a year, declared by a final decision.

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 on the same property.

What RITGA is and how it relates to your REAT number

RITGA is sometimes presented as a new register, pending and due to replace the REAT. It is not. RITGA (Rexistro de Información Turística de Galicia) is the technological renewal of the REAT itself.

Turismo de Galicia carried it out with the regional technology agency (Amtega), under the Plan Smart Turismo, and announced it on 25 May 2015. 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 applications⁹.

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, and your number is still the one you display on listings.

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.

What is the difference between the REAT code and the TURESPAZO signatura? The difference between the REAT code and the TURESPAZO signatura is what each one is for. The registration code goes on your listings; the signatura identifies the establishment to Turismo de Galicia and is what you are asked for when creating the extranet account.

Do I need to register on TURESPAZO if I only rent one room as a tourist? Registering on TURESPAZO for a single room is not possible as a dwelling for tourist use, because a Galician VUT is let in its entirety: the law requires the temporary transfer of the use and enjoyment of the whole dwelling and forbids contracts by the room, or users on different contracts coinciding inside the dwelling. Letting individual rooms means fitting the activity into another category of Galician tourism law, with its own registration, or staying outside the tourism regime altogether. That classification, not the size, is what decides whether TURESPAZO applies to you.

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 TURESPAZO replace the guest report I send to the police? TURESPAZO 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:

• Responsible declaration filed and REAT registration resolved (documents, fee).
• Registration code visible on every listing (Airbnb, Booking, Vrbo), or the DRIA filing code while the registration is still pending.
• Active TURESPAZO account, created with the owner’s NIF and the establishment’s signatura.
• 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 2026⁶.
• Eye on the SES error code list to catch rejections before they turn into fines.