The move was announced today (Friday) by the president of the Council de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, during a press conference accompanied by the island’s councillor for Tourism, José Marcial Rodríguez.
It will be the first time that Mallorca has reduced its maximum number of places. “It is time to set limits,” said Galmés, because the growth has put the coexistence between tourists and residents “at risk”.
According to the island councillor, the maximum capacity of Mallorca will be reduced to 412,000 legal beds. 308,000 are hotel rooms and 104,000 are holiday rentals.
The reduction in the maximum number of beds has been agreed with the hotel and holiday rental sector and, according to Galmés, the sector supports the measure.
The island’s tourism councillor admitted that this season will be “complicated and difficult”, but he said that this is the first step to “begin to minimise the effects” of overcrowding.
“We cannot increase the number of beds any further,” he said.
“What we have not tried to solve in eight years, we are not going to solve immediately,” he said, adding that “to be honest” the situation will be “complicated” and the president made it clear that “there will be more measures”.
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Hotels converted to residential apartments? Sounds like a win-win.
Never going to happen, not going to make any difference. Greed rules.
Morgan actually I’ve said that if your going to reduce Hotel places is the Key and only key to reducing people coming however I remember seeing data which said Mallorca has the highest number of Hotels for sale in Spain ? So people in the industry saw this coming and now we’re there and how are you going to administer this decree Whoa gonna get wild sell your hotel or have a Fire 🔥, good luck 👍
It'll be interesting to hear the screaming from this one (from all sides). Pandora's box. But frankly, I doubt it will happen, at least not in any practical sense. We'll see.