The new Balearic government wishes to find a formula whereby residents of the Balearics no longer have to pay the tourist tax. How the public will cheer if and when President Prohens manages to rid them of this onerous tax. When they spend the occasional weekend at a Mallorca inland hotel hideaway in winter, they will no longer be confronted with a demand - at most - of one euro a night.
Another load of tourist tax nonsense
The tourist tax is socially accepted, says the president
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If we the public had transparency into how the money was put back into the Balearics I'm sure people wouldn't mind so much. But politicians are far from transparent, does anybody ever wonder about the tax payers billions being sent over too one of the most corrupt countries in the world 'Ukraine.' Fighting some proxy war for NATO to get rich off why innocent people die. What about Yemen? Anybody care?
Stephen NivenTourist tax in my view should be used to build low cost housing for the locals, instead of moaning it is always a shortage, always blaming foreigners for the shortage.
There is absolutely nothing wrong in a tourism tax... a measure used very successfully employed by many high profile destinations. The problem here in the Balearics is that there is no real definition of how it is spent, and unless and until successive governments define a robust distribution methodology (and measure performance and results) it will continue to be debated and ridiculed.. so like many problems it comes back to political ideology and disfunctionality rather than educated tourism sector strategies and planning
The path between my neighbours and my property in the Tramuntana is in a shocking state. Thousand-year old steps are basically rubble and scree. Literally thousands of hikers use it in spring and autumn, destroying our fences by using them as hand rails. If the tourist tax was used for such projects, instead of building 'social' housing in Palma I might be more sympathetic.