The average daily rate for holiday accommodation in southern Gran Canaria is €138 per night as of the end of June 2026. This average daily rate tops a statistical snapshot showing a general decline in the non-hotel accommodation model while the courts shake up the regulatory landscape of the sector in Spain.
Official data shows a simultaneous decline in both accommodation supply and available beds in the southern region. Available holiday homes have registered year-on-year decreases ranging from 15,3% to 23,3% across the different areas analyzed, with specific declines of 19,7%, 17,3%, 19,4%, 19,5%, 20,7%, and 22,3%. This contraction in installed capacity is mirrored in the total number of beds, which have accumulated percentage reductions of 21,5%, 18,1%, 22,0%, 22,1%, 22,5%, 23,5%, 16,7%, and 22,6%.
Despite the reduction in supply, the behavior of the occupancy rate paints a mixed picture with contained variations ranging from a slight increase of 1,18 percentage points to drops of 2,65 points in the specific indicators for the period. At the same time, accommodation prices are consolidating a downward trend in most of the segments analyzed. Year-on-year variations in the average daily rate show decreases of 9,9%, 11,2%, 6,9%, 15,5%, 8,2%, 8,5%, and 12,3%, with only one segment bucking the general trend by experiencing a modest increase of 0,1%.
In terms of time, the average length of stay for travelers shows slight increases in overnight stays, with positive variations ranging from 0,79 to 1,52 additional days per booking. However, the combination of reduced property availability and price adjustments is directly impacting the sector's overall revenue. Total revenue from holiday accommodation in the south of the island has suffered a severe collapse, with year-on-year drops of 22,9%, 24,7%, 20,4%, 27,1%, 21,0%, 22,2%, 5,0%, and a maximum plunge of 30,4%.
This operational readjustment of the accommodation market coincides with a nationwide legal development. Spain's Supreme Court has overturned the national registry of short-term tourist rentals that the coalition government introduced last July, which required owners to obtain a registration number before advertising on digital platforms like Airbnb.
The high court has upheld the appeals filed by several regional governments, which argued that the central government had overstepped its bounds and encroached upon regional powers. The ruling states that the State lacked the authority to impose a national registry that superseded existing regional controls.
The court ruling comes at a time when the Spanish government was seeking tools to curb the uncontrolled expansion of holiday rentals in the world's second most visited country, where almost a third of tourists opt for apartments instead of traditional hotel accommodations.
Despite striking down the centralized registry, the Supreme Court ruling upholds the legal obligation of online platforms to periodically provide public administrations with data on their listings. The judges note that European Union regulations support the collection of information on short-stay listings online, but clarify that this EU directive neither authorizes nor requires the creation of a national registry.
