Spanish tourist licence number formats by region
Every Spanish region uses its own code: VUT/MA/102186 in Andalusia, HUTB-000001 in Catalonia, CV-VUT0514102-A in the Valencian Community, VV-38-4-0106032 in the Canary Islands and UVT01420 in Navarra. We verified these five formats against the live official registers rather than against third-party summaries.
The verified formats
- Andalusia — VUT/MA/102186. Province between slashes. Also VFT (older form) and VTAR (rural).
- Catalonia — HUTB-000001. The prefix letter is the province: B Barcelona, G Girona, T Tarragona, L Lleida.
- Valencia — CV-VUT0514102-A. The final letter is the province: A Alicante, V València, CS Castelló.
- Canary Islands — VV-38-4-0106032. Type, province (35 or 38), control digit, sequence. About 8% keep the older A prefix.
- Navarra — UVT01420. U plus type: UVT, UVTR, UAT, UATR, UCR, UAB and the UH hotel family.
Why published lists should be treated with suspicion
Of the five formats we checked against the official files, four disagreed with what commonly-cited secondary sources describe. Valencia is the clearest case. It is published almost everywhere as VT-000000-X, yet the real register contains no such number.
This is not a cosmetic problem. A checker built on the wrong pattern returns "not found" for a valid licence. And that result gets read as an unlicensed property.
The ambiguous case - VUT
VUT (short for vivienda de uso turístico, a tourist-use dwelling) is also used in Madrid, Castilla y León, Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, Galicia and Murcia. A bare VUT-1234 identifies no region on its own. Only the Andalusian form, with the province between slashes, is unique.
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Sources
- Registro de Turismo de Andalucía (OpenRTA)
- Registre de Turisme de Catalunya
- Registre de Turisme de la Comunitat Valenciana
- Registro General Turístico de Canarias
- Registro de Turismo de Navarra
Verified against the sources above on 2026-08-10. LicenceDesk is operational guidance, not legal advice.
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