Towards a harmonized classification system hotel

Abstract

The comparative analysis of the regional regulations concerning tourist activities shows that their diversity generates distortions in the tourist sector operation. Specifically, the disparity of regional regulations about hotel establishments is especially dysfunctional in a relevant aspect of its legal system: the classification. The dissection of the different areas which make up the scope of the competence on tourism allows the valuing of aspects in which a differentiating intervention seems appropriate, along with others in which it turns out to be distorting. In particular, there are not good reasons which justify there being different regional hotel classification systems. This is why their standardising based on the Hotelstars Union system is proposed. This is a widespread model that has already been tested in Europe and whose advantages are shown. The scheme of this model’s classification and functioning is explained in the final part of the paper. At the end there is a specific proposal about the appropriate way of implementing this in our country.