Keybox ban for holiday apartments in Italy-DiePresse.com
The Italian Ministry of the Interior had banned Key Castle on the grounds that a check-in without a personal encounter between the guest and the tenant was a security risk. A court has now overturned this.
Italian judges have lifted a ban on remote check-ins enacted by the government for short-term rentals. In its efforts to control apartments, the Italian government had banned key boxes with code last year. These allow tourists to get into a holiday apartment without personal contact with the owner.
The Italian Ministry of the Interior had banned key boxes last November on the grounds that a check-in without a personal encounter between the guest and tenant was a security risk. After the ban, art cities such as Florence and Rome had reinforced their efforts to remove the key boxes. In a judgment published on Tuesday, however, the administrative court of Latium, the region with the capital Rome, declared the directive to be void.
Ministry of the Interior in Rome is waiting for the reasoning
Marco Celani, head of the short -term rental company (AIGAB), welcomed the court ruling on Tuesday. He said he was in talks with the government to achieve the « full recognition » of remote check-in technologies. The Ministry of the Interior announced by a spokesman that it would wait for the publication of the reasoning to be justified by the court before deciding whether to appeal a higher administrative court.
The key boxes have become the symbol of the boom of short -term rentals in the heart of art cities such as Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples. Several associations have been founded in return to remove or ban them.
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