Dear Sir,
1. Looky blanket traders still rife in Palma - Cathedral gardens/ bus meeting point is more like an Arab souk - with sellers everywhere.
2. Cloudy/rainy days mean Palma grinds to a halt with tourists trying to find somewhere to park.
3. Some scatty scheme being contemplated by powers that be, haven’t they heard of park and ride? Hire cars should be banned from city centre (unless invalids being transported).
4. Whilst biking holidays seem to be the next promotion, perhaps road tests and insurance should be introduced. Plus use of mobile phones/headphones/eating and drinking whilst cycling should face the same fines as other round users.
5. With Pacha disco closed, why the need for the Paseo Maritimo to have special parking reserved at weekends? Still encouraging people to drink and drive.
6. Suggestion that traffic be reduced along Paseo Maritimo will only result in more chaos on the Via Cintura.
7. Victims of our own success. I was at Palma airport on Monday and at 9am departure. Access road total chaos! Dropping off lane vehicles double parked/ invalid parking bays blocked. And not a policeman in sight!
8. Finally, it was interesting to see Republican councillors meeting the Royal family, no doubt they will also be attending their majesty’s end of holiday thank you dinner (can’t see them missing out on that can you?)
No doubt when I return from my holiday nothing will have changed, councillors are on holiday as well.
May Vane Percy
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Spot on Malcolm but i'm afraid they are black. Haven't you noticed you are not supposed to say anything derogatory about them these days. It matters not one jot what they get up to, political correctness says we must turn a blind eye. London is lost because of this.
Posted on Facebook by Daniel Bodycote together with photosI realise there are worse injuries & things to happen but just thought I'd post this, another attack on an innocent tourist just trying to walk back to his hotel after a night out (Honolulu Hotel) by the notorious prostitutes that are freely allowed to roam & operate throughout magaluf!! The guy in the picture & his fiancé were in the bar last night having a drink, I questioned his injuries and to be honest wasn't shocked to hear his reply - whilst walking home as mentioned he was without provocation attacked by roughly 10 African prostitutes with knives and was stabbed in the leg (picture above 8 stitches), slashed and threw down the stairs + had his phone and €200 stolen from him. How is behaviour like this still acceptable in this resort & not acted upon? It's beyond a joke now that innocent people are on a daily basis having their holidays ruined by these scumbags!! Please share the life out of this, action needs to be taken!!!
My apologies but I work in an analytical field. Mallorca certainly has a ‘tourism’ problem but where does the fault truly lie?Is it the tourist? Well a tourist decides to come here because he or she has heard something good about the island. They go online, book a flight, a ferry or a cruise and in the case of a flight or a ferry, a place to stay. They are unaware at this time that there are 800 flights a day into Palma, 175,000 airline passengers and sometimes up to seven cruise ships transporting 26,000 cruise ship passengers. They are also blissfully unaware that in some cases the accommodation they are booking is illegal. If we want to equate this to something more tangible, let’s imagine that you are buying a ticket to a concert or a show or making a reservation at a restaurant. When you buy a ticket to a concert or a show, or make a reservation, you have no idea how many ‘other’ people are doing the same thing. You assume that if you are able to buy a ticket, you will get a seat.Is it the airlines or the cruise ship lines? Well yes and no. The airlines don’t decide who will fly into Mallorca nor do the cruise lines decide who will dock. They go through a complicated process where they request landing or docking rights and a ‘higher’ authority approves those. Of course they are greedy and will want as many landing and docking rights as they can get because the more they have the more they will make but ultimately, they can only sell what they are assigned. So who gives these rights? Well to be honest I don’t really know who makes the final decisions but it certainly is not the tourist, the airline or the cruise line. It is some government department that has been given this responsibility. One would hope that they try to match supply with demand but do they? You see they make money from selling the landing rights, the docking rights and from all the revenue generated from the tourists who spend their money while they are here on holiday so ‘overselling’ is in their best interests.What about the hotels? Well again they want their ‘piece of the pie’ but ultimately, they do not issue the building permits. They can request all they like but a higher authority again sanctions the final approval.What about the illegal rentals? Well when you add an ‘unknown’ quantity into the mix you are certainly going to upset the equilibrium because suddenly the whole supply and demand formula is turned upside down but again, who’s fault is this? The greedy landlords who would rather sell an overpriced apartment to a tourist, the government authority that allows this to happen or the tourist who pays for the accommodation?Clearly if you analyze the problem we can see that two entities are to blame, the government for being greedy and not controlling the situation more and the greed generated by landlords who only see the euros they can make from renting out their ‘illegal’ suites. The tourist is absolutely not to blame. They come here in good faith for a nice holiday. They buy a ticket, book a room and spend money. They are not personally responsible for the oversaturation here on the island, how could they be? I have lived in places where there is no tourism and I can tell you, no tourism equates to no services. Having said that, there is a small percentage of tourists that come here and show no respect for the island or its residents but that is another story.