Palma25/07/2017 00:00
So, Majorca has too many tourists during the peak summer months, according to the ministry for tourism. It says that tourism has reached its "ceiling" Tourism minister, Biel Barcelo, was reacting to small protests which took place over the weekend calling for a reduction during the peak summer months.
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Now you will have NO tourists at all ;) as you wish ;) I hope you will be doing well without a money ;) due to lock down by COVID19.
Its no good looking at the Island as a whole, should be looking at individual resorts. And let me guess, to put people off, prices will be put up stopping people on smaller budgets being able to afford to come. Freezing out people who have been loyal to mallorca for years and years, and put more money into the economy than the more well off.
I was in Mallorca in February, am also coming back in October. I dont come when the British schools are on holiday [June/July/August] as its too hot for me. However living in a tourist town in the UK, I can understand where the locals get fed up of the'incomers', trashing places/ vomiting everywhere, fighting etc. etc. Upmarket tourists wont put money in the bar, or shopkeepers pockets. They will be stuck behind the walls of the 4/5 star all inclusive hotels. I know this as I did it one year with my family. Paid megabucks for 7 night all inc. Only stepped out of the hotel once in the whole week sadly :-(
Please remember without me and Thousands of others Mallorca would be in a far worse state than it is now. Your government should ask the people that do matter and that's the public what they think about us tourists. The government only want the opinion of the top end business men / women who would prefer the higher spenders to come onto the fantastic Island of Mallorca, they are the ones who they say will spend more. Once again its the Greedy people that are being heard not the Majority .
I for one won't be back,between the airport queues,protests and stories of ''tourist saturation'' anti-tourist graffiti,being blamed for just about every problem on Majorca,the doubling of the tourist tax and generally being made to feel unwelcome,I am of elsewhere and I don't think that I will be alone.
If the Island goes upmarket , to attract big spenders. My experience of upmarket tourists is they only spend with Credit Cards. So every business must upgrade to a Credit Card facility. Also, they become more like prisoners, in their 4 and 5 Star Hotels, and do not use local businesses.