Magalluf will no longer be singled out "as the Bad Boy of Calvia" with tough laws aimed at curbing bad behaviour and excessive drinking. The Mayor of Calvia, Juan Antonia Amengual, held talks on Monday morning with the President of the Balearic government, Marga Prohens, and top of the agenda was the Law of Excesses introduced by the previous administration to try and outlaw bad behaviour in Magalluf and Playa de Palma.
Magalluf will no longer be singled out in bad behaviour law
Calvia has managed to close the season with zero balconing, one of the main objectives
The council does have a point. This summer tourists have been bused out of Magalluf and taken to other resorts where the laws are not so tough. The Balearic government has already said that it wants changes to the Law of Excesses but have so far given few details. It appears that it could be a replaced by a new island-wide law which would aim to outlaw bad behaviour and excessive drinking.Also in News
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Is it me or does the question not make sense or may be loaded. The article is about applying the excess law across the whole of Mallorca to control the whole island. I cant see how the change is targeting individual tourists as the question suggests ? Applying completely restrictive laws is surely going to kill those businesses who's bread and butter revenue relies on that sort of tourism. Havent they been punished enough over the last few years? A maximum of 6 drinks for those tourists who like staying in all inclusive hotels is surely a pretty tight limit and will either force hotels to reduce the room costs or just put those sorts of tourists off those sorts of hotels. I appreciate there is a valid argument for putting those sorts of tourists off and moving away from this market but surely common sense has to be applied. If its forced too quickly, businesses are just going to go bankrupt, the government will lose the TAX revenue, unemployment will go up and it will take the next 5 to 10 years minimum for those areas to adjust to attracting enough higher net worth tourism to compensate 'some of that; at best' and they'll never get the level of employment back through that route. Their will be higher paid jobs for the few but unemployment for the many that dont meet up with the standards / qualifications / experience required by venues targeting higher net worth clientelle. Many of those workers will just end up on state benefits. Surely the effects on the economy need to be considered here.
It'll just move the problem somewhere else.