SUNDAY opening could become a reality in Palma if the current Mayor, Aina Calvo, wins reelection next month.
The PSIB Balearic Socialist Party candidate for mayor, made the announcement yesterday as the countdown to the elections on May 22 gathers momentum.
Calvo said that she would declare the streets of Jaime III, the Borne and Plaza Juan Carlos I areas of tourist importance, which would mean that shops and businesses in those areas would be able to open on bank Holidays and Sundays.
Calvo said that, in time, she would expand the declaration to other parts of the city and that the council will even make grants available to shops which wish to open on Sundays but may require assistance in paying their workforce, in particular the smaller, family businesses which have been hardest hit by the recession over the past two years.
Calvo said that financial assistance will also be made available for bars and restaurants which would like to remodel and improve their terraces while museums and other cultural centres will be open for free on weekends and there will be parking discounts for tourists and residents.
Calvo said that this is all part of a concerted and very serious move to finally transform Palma into a proper weekend break destination and compete with other European cities which are not only open for business on weekends, but packed with visitors.
The council is well aware that neither tourists nor the tour operators and hoteliers are impressed with the fact that the city closes up after lunch on Saturdays and the mayor's latest initiative could breathe new life into the capital.
Providing she wins reelection.
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