Tourists claiming to stay with 'family and friends' have doubled in ten years
25% increase in people staying at their second homes
A crowded street in Ciutadella, Menorca. | Josep Bagur Gomila
Palma02/07/2024 08:03Updated at 08:56
Data from the National Statistics Institute's Frontur surveys of tourist movement indicate that the number of tourists who claim to be staying with family or friends has more than doubled over the past ten years.
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So, apparently British tabloid media have picked up on this and naturally exaggerated it beyond any reasonable recognition. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/travel/majorca-warns-uk-tourists-35-29460910 Ok, go to Greece or some other cheap destination. We'll just have to live with a more desirable tourist profile.
Just ask them for their contact details and check the records of the address. It's quite simple to do
Kevin DSee? bloody foreigners.
They are staying in the illegal properties the Spanish operate.
That's the problem with foreigners. Once you let one in, the whole family and all their friends show up. And then they have the audacity to claim they're staying with "friends and family". There's an old saying, "you don't know how many friends you have until you have a house in Mallorca".
It's a disgrace that Mallorca is forcing some holidaymakers to lie about the status of their trips just to spend time on the island. The whole letting-to-tourists law needs reviewing.