The Pimeco retail business association has asked Calvia town hall to withdraw its new bylaw on the display of alcoholic drinks. Retailers affected by this - they can't have displays outside shops - are wanting the withdrawal at least until a comprehensive plan against "tourism excesses" is drawn up.
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Retailers call for Calvia drink display ban to be withdrawn
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Stop shops selling the flavoured industrial alcohol coming out of Antonio Nadal's factory in Marraxti. As long as vodka and other spirits is sold at 5 euros a litre you will always have a problem. whether is be from a shop, a hotel or a bar.
Yes we British have a poor attitude to alcohol. We never have respected it. At 10.50pm we order a few more rounds and then down them !!! We are not ticked off for our dreadful alcoholic behaviour at home, our rudeness, aggression, disrespect, swearing, abuse of our police and medical teams etc. So we believe we can now be the appallingly behaviour tourists of Europe. Even though I am British I am agree that Spain should get tough on Brits. We are now a Nation that I am not proud off. Our behaviour is disgusting from many ages of the generation.
Just re-read this article. Does this paragraph seem odd to you?'Pimeco claims that approximately 71% of admissions for the effects of alcohol at Son Espases Hospital relate to guests at all-inclusive hotels. A far lower percentage relates to drinking in bars and clubs, while only two per cent from Calvia are the result of alcohol bought in shops'.Firstly, how many people who drink to excesses actually go to Son Espases? Secondly, can you imagine somebody who is in such a state that they need medical attention being asked the question 'Where did you buy the booze?' and thirdly, Pimeco actually found the person who collected this data? Fourthly, if this is true and I doubt it is, over what period of time, how many people were sampled?Journalists need to think before they write, look at a comment made by somebody who clearly wants to distort the truth and verify the information.
Just been to my supermarket in Paguera.Yes they have moved all the drinks from outside,so what never been a problem,people in organised queue buying food ,drink as before.How pathetic to think this new rule will make any difference to street drinking in Paguera,to the politicians,it's not a problem here,why not try doing something about the lucky,lucky men or the the cars driving down the boulevard when supposedly not allowed after a certain time and the police just wave them on.London,Barcelona,pathetic
People are always looking for scapegoats. It's the tourists or the all-inclusives but it is never their fault. You can buy a can of beer for 22 cents. Do the math......one euro 10 and you will be well on your way to being plastered. Two euros twenty and you will be reeking havoc. The stores want to sell booze, make lots of money and then wash their hands of the aftermath. Great gig if you can get it. The crowd I see staggering around drunk are not all-inclusives.......I can assure you.
In stead of all these regulations, why not just stop all the young hooligans from entering Mallorca. Do something to make it difficult for them to come. Why affect millions, when you can make it simple...
Yes, we don't need terrorist attacks in Mallorca to kill the island's tourism,- our politicians are capable of doing it on their own. Just keep banning everything, and they'll all go away....
I have sympathy with retailers: a lot of their sales are 1 litre plastic bottles which go straight into tourists suitcases for the trip home. There's no evidence that people make an unplanned decision to buy a bottle then sit down and get drunk just because they've seen the display. Most drunken tourists are at all-inclusive hotels, or part of crusading groups drinking at multiple bars. I applaud Calvia council on trying to stop drunken behaviour but this move won't help a jot.
I cannot understand how any one can blame A/I guests for the drunkenness in Magaluf the MAJORITY of these drunks are young people who come Magaluf were the booze is cheap DO NOT & CAN NOT afford the cost of a A/I holiday. So why Pimeco are blaming the A/I guests i don't understand. And in the winter months they still have the displays out and there are no young ones in the resort they just do it to gain more profits from all tourists to this part of the Fantastic Island