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Veri*Factu: the two dates left, and why yours does not depend on your legal form
Royal Decree-law 15/2025 left the deadlines at 1 January 2027 and 1 July 2027. The line is not "companies or sole traders" but which tax you pay, and that changes the date in edge cases. There is also a third deadline, the one for software makers, which fell on 29 July 2025.
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What makes an AI cite your site, according to the study that founded GEO
The work by Aggarwal and others, presented at KDD 2024, tested nine ways of writing against 10,000 queries. Adding direct quotations raised visibility by 40.9%, and repeating keywords left it below doing nothing at all. And there is an awkward result: for a site that is already the top result, these methods subtract.
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What an OTA is, and why since 2024 you can sell cheaper on your own site
The European Commission designated Booking Holdings as a gatekeeper, and since 14 November 2024 the platform has to allow better prices on other channels, including the property's own website. What an OTA actually is, how its cost works out against the gross value of each booking, and what that change does not mean.
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What a PMS is, and when a small property actually needs one
PMS, channel manager and booking engine get sold together and do different things. What each one holds, why the order you buy them in matters more than the brand, the six questions worth asking before signing, and why with six rooms you may not need one yet.
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Eight of every ten foreign tourists the Dominican Republic gained in 2025 were Argentinian
The country added 216,382 foreign tourists and Argentina supplied 169,325 of them, up 62.5% on the previous year. The United States and Canada still make up 60.1% of the total, but the Central Bank reports a moderation since mid-2024. What happens when the market that grows is not the market the business was built for.
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81% of Colombia's foreign tourists fit into Bogotá, Antioquia and Bolívar
4,677,267 non-resident foreigners arrived in 2025, up 3.8%. But the split by destination barely moves: three territories take 81% and the rest of the country shares out around 11%. Meanwhile domestic tourism, which is what a hotel outside those hubs lives on, has shrunk by six points.
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Half of Mexico's record 2025 visitor count never stayed a night
98.2 million international visitors and average spending down 6.6%. Both figures come from INEGI and they do not contradict each other: three of every four new visitors were same-day visitors who never sleep in the country. Meanwhile there were 298,034 fewer tourists arriving by air than in 2024, and each one spent 4.7% more.
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Costa Rica grew 0.8% in 2025: what a hotel does when volume stops rising
The weakest growth in a decade, three markets making up 81% of arrivals and a colón at twenty-year highs. Why an OTA commission hurts twice when the exchange rate moves, and which levers are left when you cannot sell more nights.
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Spain broke its tourism record in 2025, and half of its small properties still run on paper
96.8 million tourists and €134,712 million in spending, according to INE. Yet 50.6% of small accommodation businesses managed bookings by hand and 72.7% set prices with no tool. What that gap costs and where to start closing it.
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