Local accommodation in portugal provided by autonomus housing unit the dichotomous issue: Relevance to tourism development vs. protect the rights of subjective condomins

Abstract

Local Accommodation (LA), as a legal figure and typology that eventually became autonomous in the wide range of regulatory norms regulating tourism enterprises, registered an accelerated growth, due to the exponential increase of tourist demand. The scope of this article concerns the non-trivial question of whether the service that characterizes the activity of Local Accommodation may be provided in apartments (autonomous units) of real estate subject to the horizontal property regime, when its purpose is not fixed as provision of accommodation services. Reflection is also made on the impact of LA on aspects related to Urbanism (vg the RJEU-Urban Buildings Legal Regime) and the Environment. Thus, one of the axes of this article is the reflection on the controversial relations that local accommodation has aroused, when the temporary tourist accommodation service is provided against remuneration and through the use of the service provider’s own housing, situated in autonomous units.