Every tourist should know where their eco-tax goes
A system enabling hotel guests to access ongoing projects via a QR code on their hotel card is being discussed.
There is a growing desire to charge tourists for everything and anything.
There is a growing desire to charge tourists for everything and anything.
Marga Prohens came to power earlier this year
Marga Prohens came to power earlier this year and apart from lowering a few taxes she is keeping many of the policies and projects introduced by Armengol.
Tourist views welcome
“I think it is a refreshing change that the views of tourists are wanted and repected...”
Don’t tax tourists in the Balearics
“The tourist industry already pays enough tax. The time has come to scrap the tourist tax...”
The time has come to ditch the tourist tax
The time has come to ditch the tourist tax.
Now Spain torpedoes all-inclusive cruise deals with extra booze and food taxes
Spain charges 10 per cent in VAT on food and drink consumed on land - and, it turns out, water.
Ever upward: May’s tourism in Mallorca and the Balearics
There seems to me to be an obsessive desire to see Mallorca and the Balearics fail and to blame whatever most suits one’s own narrative, be this Brexit, prices, government attitude, cost-of-living crisis, tourist tax (select as applicable).
British media welcomes tourist tax freeze.
British media welcomes tourist tax freeze.
British media hails Mallorca election result; no rise in tourist tax
Calls to scrap the tax remain.
Tourists or votes?
Tourist bashing is becoming a major election issue but residents could be caught up in the shambles as well.
Calls for cruise ships to pay a Balearic eco-tax for contamination
The ecologists want the same to be applied to hire car and boat rental companies.
Your weekly news catch up in Mallorca
The stories that made the headlines this week in Mallorca.
Balearics will not raise the tourist tax
Private jets, cruise ships and yachts could be charged the tourist tax.
Junior coalition partners in Balearic government want BIG increase in the tourist tax
"Tourist tax should be paid at airports and ports of entrance..."
Taxing time for tourists.
Taxing time for tourists.
Nine out of ten tourists agree with the tourist tax
The British and the Spanish are not that keen.
Fresh push for a 10% hike in Balearic tourist tax
Now is not the time for a new battle with hoteliers.
- Spain wants Britons to show they have 113.40 euros, £97, per day for their holidays
- Big changes on the horizon when Britons travel to Mallorca
- Over two hours for Britons to get through Palma airport queues
- Palma Airport passport control "collapse" put down to unscheduled flights
- Living in a motorhome in Palma: "It'll only get worse"
Comment
Tourists not made of money!
Now, the elephant in the room appears to be “tourism overload”.
Humphrey Carter01/03/2024 10:59