All travel agencies established in Spain that are interested in appearing on this list must notify the Secretary of State for Tourism, through:

General Subdirectorate of Tourism Cooperation and Competitiveness:

• C/ Capitán Haya, 41 (28020 – Madrid)
• Phone 91.732.64.71 Fax 91.732.64.74
• Email: sgcooperacion@tourspain.es

Registration period

From May 5 to May 25, 2015.

All requests, once reviewed, will be answered individually.

Two cases are distinguished: Renewal: for travel agencies that appear on the November 2014 list; and New registration: for those agencies that do not appear in said list (including those that have appeared in previous lists).

New registration

For registration, the following information must be communicated:

• Full name of the travel agency
• Contact person
• Postal address (Street/Road, number and Postal Code)
• Phone number
• Fax (if any)
• Email address
• Registration number or License issued by the competent administrative authority of the corresponding Autonomous Community, which demonstrates that the applicant company is authorized to operate as a travel agency and has the corresponding title-license or registration certificate.
• In any case, you must send a copy of your title-license to the fax 91.732.64.74, or a scanned copy of said title-license to the email address sgcooperacion@tourspain.es

Renewal

Spanish travel agencies that appear on the list from November 2014 and wish to remain included in the list must notify this also using the same procedure. If they do not do so, it will be understood that they wish to unsubscribe and they will be automatically excluded from the list.

To renew the registration and in order to keep the content of the list updated, the following data must be communicated:

• Full name of the travel agency
• Contact person
• Postal address (Street/Road, number, and Postal Code)
• Phone number
• Fax (if any)
• Email address
• Registration number or License issued by the competent administrative authority of your Autonomous Community that demonstrates that the applicant company is authorized to operate as a travel agency and has the corresponding title-license or Certificate of Registration (since it is renewal, it is not necessary to send a copy of the title-license or registration certificate as it was sent in the previous registration, but notify it for verification).

The list is legally indicative according to the interpretation of the European Commission; However, AAVVs that are actually going to contract with Chinese AAVVs for the provision of incoming services in the EC are recommended to register on said list.

The reason for this registration is not only to enable recruitment by the Chinese AAVVs. The consular offices of the EC Member States, in the use of the powers conferred on them by the Common Consular Instruction of the EC, require from the Chinese AAVV, when applying for visas, a certification of the receptive European AV, with specification of all services contracted and reserved for the ADS group.

The AAVV indicative list, once compiled by the Delegation of the European Commission in China, is the only instrument available to the consular offices of the EC Member States in China to verify that the European company declared by the AV china station for the incoming destination is a true travel agency and not another type of company.

The Chinese Tourism Administration has expressed to the Delegation of the European Commission in Beijing its intention to update the list every six months so that travel agencies belonging to the European countries included in the Memorandum of Agreement can be included in the database to which the Chinese AAVVs authorized to send tourist groups abroad have access.

See press release