412 COMPETITION LAW IN TOURISM 4.3. Digital tourism detox A prominent tourist claim (although not exempt from certain snobbery) in these times of total digitalisation may be, precisely, the absence of connection, that is, the possibility of evading you for a few days or, in the best of cases, weeks, of all the technological devices that keep us in permanent contact with the digital world. In this sense, and contrary to what has been developed throughout this work, it is not unreasonable to think that this type of tourist destinations can be successful. We can talk about disconnected tourism, or as already mentioned in some guides and specialised tourist blogs, “Détox digital tourism”44, that is, for digital detoxification. These destinations are characterised by their lack of connection and the absence of technology. The most interesting of these destinations without technology is that they must be considered tourist destinations of the highest quality, despite their disconnection from ICT. A brief reflection on this circumstance may lead to the conclusion that citizens sometimes need to disconnect. It could thus raise the extension of the right to the disconnection that labour doctrine45 speaks to other areas of law. A reflection that the author only aims to exceed the object of the present work. In any case, it should be mentioned that since the entry into force of Organic Law 3/2018, of 5 December, on Data Protection and Guarantee Of Digital Rights, that right to digital disconnection is recognised, and other similar, both in the workplace and in social relationships. 4.4. The collaborative economy in tourism The use of ICT has allowed new economic models that question the traditional one to emerge in the tourist sector. Thus, they have made it possible for private citizens – not companies or professionals in the sector – to provide certain tourism 44 See the article “¿WiFi? No, gracias. Viajes para desconectar”, which poses as an alternative to digital or intelligent tourism, the return to analogue tourism, in destinations that are characterised by being “tech-free paradises”. It is pointed out that “Some Caribbean islands such as San Vincent or the Grenadines offered themselves as digital detoxification holidays (Digital Detox). It is their main attraction besides some magnificent beaches, transparent waters and good hotels, that is: without a computer, without a telephone, without Wi-Fi, as was done before. The disconnection is total. (...) It is a new trend that will grow in the coming years. Travellers have already tried the experience of travelling completely connected, but there are many who want to go back to the old days when travelling was leaving many things behind”; available at: https://www.lonelyplanet.es/blog/wifi-no-gracias- -viajes-para-desconectar. In the same sense, see “the traveler” section in El País, published on 6 April 2016, in which there is a talk of “Hotels where to disconnect from the world”. For its part, the state company Paradores de Turismo offers its detox program. 45 See, among others, ALEMÁN PÁEZ, F., “El derecho de desconexión digital: una aproximación conceptual, crítica y contextualizadora al hilo de la Loi Travail N.º 2016-1088”, Trabajo y derecho: nueva revista de actualidad y relaciones laborales, no. 30, 2017, pp. 12 et seq.
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