May 19 (UPI) -- Spain announced Monday it has ordered Airbnb to block tens of thousands of illegal listings from its platform.
The Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption, and the 2030 Agenda, or MAS, said in a press release that Ministry head Pablo Bustinduy has "urged" the international hospitality company to take down exactly 65,935 listings from its Irish subsidiary under the claim that they are "illegal for violating regulations on advertising this type of tourist accommodation," as they purportedly "violate the regulations of the various autonomous communities where the Consumer Affairs Department has detected them."
MAS said that all the allegedly illegal listings "are for entire tourist accommodations," and that "no listings for individual rooms appear."
MAS further said that it has sent Airbnb "three resolutions notifying it of the more than 65,000 illegal tourist accommodation listings detected on its platform, ordering the company to block these ads."
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