Responsible Owner in Venice

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When you list a holiday home on Vrbo you are required to comply with the current legislation applicable for this activity. To avoid any misunderstanding please note that our site does not provide any legal advice on this topic and that the indications summarized below are only a general indication on the main legal provision of the Veneto Region and in particular of the city of Venice. We included also certain links that will allow you to have a better understanding on what are the applicable principles and your possible obligations.

Obligations for operating a holiday home in Venice (authorisations, reporting, etc.)

 

What is a holiday home?

In the help pages of Vrbo we use the term "holiday home" or "home for holiday" as a generic definition which does not refer to any specific legal meaning.

With holiday home we mean the accommodation facility, the property or the house that, according to the provisions of Veneto Regional Law number 11 of 14 June 2013, could correspond to complementary accommodation facility or to a tourist lease pursuant to articles 27 and 27bus.

In particular complementary accommodation facilities are:

"accommodation facilities open to the public, with single management, located in a building with different spaces and services offered to the tourist than the one of hotel accommodation facilities."

 

What are my obligations as an owner of a holiday home?

If you would like to host tourists by opening a holiday home, please be aware that you will be required to fulfil certain administrative obligations.

Below you will find a list of the main obligations that you could be required to fulfil, but we invite you to verify all the obligations applicable in your case:
 

a) Reporting to the Municipality

In order to start operating a holiday home you might need to send, exclusively via online transmission, to the SUAP (Office for business activites), a notice of commencement of the activity (SCIA).

The SCIA needs to include deeds and declarations proving certain functional and structural requirements needed in order to carry out the activity.

If you wish to start operating a holiday home in the Municipality of Venice, you can visit the following page for information on the SCIA and the SUAP of Venice.

b) Name and classification of the accommodation facility

Name and classification (or any change thereof) of an accommodation facilities is carried out through a declaration to be signed in a specific section of the SCIA.

c) Identification code

In accordance with Regional Regulation No. 2 of 10 September 2019 (Regional Official Journal No. 105/2019), in order to improve knowledge of what the region has to offer to tourists, an identification code has been introduced for accommodation that is rented for tourism purposes, to be displayed and used in advertising on digital platforms or websites for booking accommodation. For further information about how to obtain the code and display it, see the following page https://www.regione.veneto.it/web/turismo/locazioni-turistiche.

d) Obligations regarding prices of the holiday home

As owner/manager of a holiday home you might be required to display in a visible way for the public, the tag of the prices in compliance with provision of article 34 of the Regional Law number 11 of 14 June 2013 and related regional models.

e) Communication regarding the guests hosted in your holiday home

You must communicate certain information about the guests who are staying in your holiday home to the police headquarters through the site Alloggiati web within 24 hours of their arrival or within 6 hours if they are staying for less than 24 hours. This also applies to short stays (less than 30 days).

f) Reporting tourist flows

In addition to the reporting obligations mentioned above, in general owners/managers of holiday homes are required to communicate certain data on the tourist flows related to their accommodation facility, exclusively via online transmission by accessing the internet portal MT Web.

g) Insurance coverage

The management of a holiday home might be subject to insurance requirements covering civil liability risks towards customers that will stay in the accommodation facility: please remember to have a policy active before starting the activity.

h) Tourist tax

Remember that as an owner/manager of an accommodation facility, you might be required to collect and remit the tourist tax to the Municipality of Venice. For more information on the tourist tax, click here.

i) Waste tax

Finally please be aware that one of your obligations as an owner/manager of a holiday home is to fulfil your obligations with respect to the waste tax. For more information regarding the amount of the tax, please click on this link.

Differentiated waste collection in Venice

An increasing amount of waste is being produced and must be managed in such a way as to protect the environment, reduce disposal costs and recycle valuable materials.

In the light of the above it is important to provide guests with guidelines on how to dispose of waste during their stay in the holiday home.

Keep in mind that there are both national rules and regional rules on waste management that are designed to keep the quantity of non-recyclable waste destined for the landfill or processed by incinerators or waste-to-energy plants to a minimum while recovering all reusable materials through recycling, thereby turning them into a source of wealth rather than pollution.

Please find below the latest rules for the city of Venice that must be followed by every guest in order to properly dispose of waste.

Municipality of Venice  – Waste
Veritas – Differentiated waste