The Legal Impacts of COVID-19 in the Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Industry

9 necessary to take into account the regional regulation 27 . The problems raised have been dealt with by the doctrine 28 . For example, and to cite the case of our Valencian Community, Article 64 of Law No. 15/2018, June 7, of the Generalitat Valenciana, on tourism, leisure and hospitality of the Valencian Community 29 , contemplates the following types of tourist accommodation: hotel establishments, tourist apartment blocks and complexes, tourist apartment blocks and complexes, housing for tourist use, campsites, overnight transit areas for motorhomes, rural tourist accommodation and tourist hostels. Bearing also in mind the different collaborative economy platforms 30 , such as Airbnb 31 . Thus, both apartments and dwellings for tourist use are included, but it would be necessary to attend to each regional regulation to see what is included within the concept of tourist accommodation 32 . All this supposes very high economic losses, since the tourist sector in Spain is one of the most important economic engines 33 . III. Declaration of Essential Services to a Series of Tourist Accommodation: Accommodation for Workers 27 B USTO , DEL , E ., C EBALLOS M ARTÍN , M ª . M. y P ÉREZ G UERRA , R., “Marco normativo de los apartamentos y viviendas de uso turístico en España: Especial mención a la Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid” [online], Journal of Tourism Analysis. Revista de Análisis Turístico , vol. 26, nº 1, 2019, 62-92, available in: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JTA-05-2018-0015/full/html [ consulted on 09 April 2020]. 28 M ORENO G IL , S., P ICAZO P ERAL , P. y K ORSTANIE , M. E., “La investigación sobre la imagen de los alojamientos turísticos y las dimensiones que la componen: situación actual y retos de futuro” [online], Anuario Turismo y Sociedad , vol. 25, 2019, 217-252, available in: https://revistas.uexternado.edu.co/index.php/tursoc/article/view/6004/7737 [ consulted on 09 April 2020]. 29 BOE No. 157, 29 June 2018. 30 On this topic, it can be consulted: G OSÁLBEZ P EQUEÑO , H. (dir.), El régimen jurídico del turismo colaborativo , Wolters Kluwer, Madrid, 2019. 31 See, J IMÉNEZ H ORWITZ , M., “La situación jurídica dela plataforma Airbnb en el marco de la economía colaborativa”, nº 3, 2019; 32 C OSTAS D E V ICENTE , B., “26 de marzo 2020: Cierre de alojamientos turísticos por crisis COVID-19 y sus consecuencias” [online], Sepin , 2020, available in: https://blog.sepin.es/2020/03/cierre-alojamientos- turisticos-coronavirus/ [consulted on 10 April 2020]. 33 C ASILLAS , C., “Un coronavirus toma el relevo de la guerra comercial: Lujo, aerolíneas y hoteles son los sectores más afectados por esta nueva amenaza para las bolsas”, Inversión: el semanario líder en bolsa, economía y gestión de patrimonios , nº 1170, 2020, 30-32.