There is a growing desire to charge tourists for everything and anything. | Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter
Palma01/03/2024 10:59
If it were not for foreign tourism, Spain, including the Balearics, would have a massive blackhole in its economy and if the forecast is to believed, the country is going to make even more money with a further increase in visitors this year.
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Yes they are otherwise they wouldn't be on holiday.
Zoltan TeglasI suspect those you refer to grew up reading the sun, mail and express, where Britain (read: England) is always #1, and everywhere else is third world or otherwise wonky in some way. In retirement, they buy a small apartment in Benidorm or Magaluf, live in "England in the sun", and don't really know much more about the rest of the world other than what they read in the express (or the "Majorca Daily Express" as the case may be). And therefore, in that isolation, would naturally be lead to believe there just isn't much else other than Englishness, and what dieAnd that would explain a lot.
Morgan WilliamsAnd they are all going to Turkey now anyway. It must be true as the MDB said it.
Morgan WilliamsA percentage of them seem to have a strange sense of being important and being better than everyone else - probably due to the media always going on about having the 5th biggest economy etc. That might be true, but it certainly isn't the 5th richest country, not even in Europe I'd guess. I couldn't believe how run down UK cities were when I visited a couple of years ago. That's 15 years of no investment I suppose.
Zoltan TeglasNot only that, but despite the parade of articles proclaiming Brits as the overwhelming majority of tourists to Spain , Brits only account for about 15-25% of Spanish tourism, depending on the particular tabloid proclamation of the day. Since Brits appear to be the only ones complaining or threatening to quit coming to Spain (despite only minor historical declines in British tourism percentages - which actually doesn't mean fewer Brits - it's that more of other nationalities are showing up) the threat of Brits impoverishing Spain by going elsewhere en masse is a quite a stretch. And they wonder why Spain tends to yawn at that.
'If it were not for foreign tourism, Spain, including the Balearics, would have a massive blackhole in its economy ' Tourism in Spain accounts for around 11% of GDP, roughly the same as the UK, so it's not as important as many people think.
Don’t you have better stories to embroider than this. Bloody hell.
So far, it doesn't seem too have much impact. Except that Mallorca seems to be increasingly attracting a different class of tourist.
If that's the biggest whinge you can come up with...