16/06/2017 00:00
I wouldn’t call it a backlash but there are growing calls for the so-called "booze tourism" to end. Enough is enough after a weekend of holidaymakers behaving badly was the general opinon. Yesterday, I was a guest on Radio Ultima Hora and one of my fellow guests on the radio debate show said that it was a problem of education and tourists should be told to behave.
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If I can spot the troublemakers from a mile off so can everybody else. I sit in airport lounges and I see the potential troublemakers. The airlines need to be held accountable as do the bars and restaurants when they get here. I see stores in Playa de Palma selling bottled beer to tourists knowing they will take them onto the beach but not bothering to mention about the ban on glass bottles. Why? Because they want to make money and bothering those that are creating your wealth has never been good for business. At the same token, we need to step up patrols. It is no good having laws and not having people to enforce them. I can already hear the powers to be screaming about funding. Well I could walk along the beach in Can Pastilla and S'Arenal anytime of the day and find dozens of people who are not obeying the law. Fines = Funds = Salaries for the Police. When people stop offending and the fines go down, so does the police presence. They choose to break the law so hit them hard with fines that will do more than slap them on the wrist. We need to kick them hard up the backside!
Alcohol is the worst drink people can take before flying. You dehydrate in the climb, and again during the descent. Some passengers have gone into a state of madness during a flight. Flight diversions, cost £5000.00, now to be paid by the offending drunks. They are to be barred from flying. Stag and Hen parties, to be refused boarding. The sale of Alcohol to be stopped on Aircraft. In the event of an Emergency, drunks would and will cause deaths during a crash landing and rapid evacuation of the Aircraft. Sober passengers, need to report drunks, and refuse to fly, or demand an emergency diversion, to have the offending drunks ejected and arrested.
Calvia has had laws like you suggest since 1991 (part of its ordenzas muncipales) but they do not use them. http://calvia.com/servlet/model.web.ShowDoc?KARXIU=84&TABLENAME=WEB.DOCUMENTACIO&pageProcessKey=LOADINGDOCUMENT&KDOCUMENTACIO=3632
You need to get out more,Jason. In Magaluf,for example,most tourists are more than 18 years old,most way above that age and they go there to get totally hammered,the same could be said for a good many visitors to Santa Ponsa,Playa de Palma and others,most bars and clubs would shut down with the loss of a lot of jobs and the so-called ''quality'' tourists would hardly make up for that loss,a lot of them are as tight as a Duck's backside and spend very little. I personally am teetotal so have no axe to grind but Majorca would cease to exist without those tourists,like it or not.