Resumo: Since the outbreak of the global crisis in 2008, the touristification of the Spanish economy hasintensified. Within this context, the city of Madrid has also gained power as a tourist destination.The paper analyses the tensions between tourist rental and residential rental in the cityof Madrid. This study was carried out using spatial analysis, statistics and cartographic techniques,enablaing us to visualize and quantify the variables related to tourist and residentialrental activity in the city. Although it is true that today there are tourist rental properties inevery district of Madrid following a spatial pattern in the form of an oil stain, it is in the oldtown where more than the half of the total of tourist rental properties offered on Airbnb arelocated. This paper aims to: 1) establish the spatial patterns of tourist rental activity, basedon the analysis of a sample of Airbnb’s offer, in the city of Madrid; 2) estimate the spatial distribution of residential rental properties and identify where they clash with tourist rentals; 3)evaluate the effects of the regulatory measures related to the tourist use of homes. The studyconcludes that the tourist rental business carried out in the city of Madrid follows a pattern ofintensive exploitation, where the old town is the nucleus of this activity, constituting the placeof greatest confrontation between the residential rental and the touristic rental markets.
