The new register of travelers, regulated by Royal Decree 933/2021, will come into force on December 2. However, since the idea was presented, this regulation has attracted votes against it from across the manufacturing sector. tourism (hoteliers, campsites and travel agencies), apart from the fact that its implementation even has the European Commission. Likewise, this registration of travelers, which involves the collection of more than 40 personal data, also carries a serious security risk. As the president of Fetave, César Gutiérrez, explained to OKDIARIO: “This database is going to be the most gentle that can currently exist for users. pirates“.
Therefore, another of the biggest problems that this traveler registry presents is that it violates travel regulations. data protection of the European Union and against the privacy of individuals, it is therefore very likely that in the future this rule will end up being repealed by the European Commission itself.
Passenger check-in security
The registration of travelers raises big doubts about its security and the way in which more than 40 personal data of all national and international travelers who register in hotels, campsites or who contract a trip through of a travel agency. “The problem is that anyone planning a long-term trip knows that at some point their data will be recorded in several databases, in addition to one base of the Ministry of the Interiorwhich includes all the recordings,” explains Gutiérrez.
“For hackers who are always looking for the most greedy databases, this is going to be the biggest temptation that can exist right now. The reason is that it will be a database in which you will have account numbers, card numbers… you will know when someone goes on vacation, what days they spend away from home, etc.,” he defends.
The most restrictive register in the EU
“Marlaska realized that we had to be the only European country to launch the more restrictive law throughout Europe on the recording of traveler data”, he explains.
This is the strictest traveler register in Europe. “No one in Europe has this problem at the moment. In Europe, when you go to a hotel, you are only asked, as now in Spain, for your passport or DNI, or a series of minimal data. However, what is being said here is that they must collect more than 40 data“, he said.
Against the European Commission
Likewise, from the tourism sector, we do not understand that from the Ministry of Marlaška Do not make a new extension of this registration of travelers, since this method is even opposed by European Commission.
“We know that the European Commission was very critical of this royal decree when it sent it to them before it was approved, and they put many obstacles from Europe to move forward. However, the government paid absolutely no attention to what the European Commission was saying and this royal decree was written exactly as in its initial form,” Gutiérrez defends.
