Three million euros of tourist tax to buy places of environmental interest
This is tourist tax revenue that went unused.
Calls for tourists to pay more taxes to holiday in the Balearics.
Calls for tourists to pay more taxes to holiday in the Balearics.
Proposals to hike Mallorca tourist tax by 60% and abolish all tourism promotion
Local residents already have to pay some of the highest taxes in Spain.
Balearics will not raise the tourist tax
Private jets, cruise ships and yachts could be charged the tourist tax.
Balearic joy after EU visa travel scheme for Britons is delayed again
Spanish tourism leaders have sounded a warning about losing millions of Britons if the European Union introduced the new tourist tax.
Spain worried about impact of new EU visa on British tourism
Concerns over another tax added to those already charged by destinations like the Balearics.
Nine out of ten tourists agree with the tourist tax
The British and the Spanish are not that keen.
Mallorca Tourist Board calls for greater institutional representation
117 years old, the Mallorca Tourist Board has opposed tourist taxes on four different occasions.
Fresh drive to increase the tourist tax.
Fresh drive to increase the tourist tax.
No tourist tax money for tourism projects.
No tourist tax money for tourism projects.
Tourist tax will be frozen in the Balearics next year.
Tourist tax will be frozen in the Balearics next year.
Balearic tourist tax will not go up next summer
Opposition parties have been calling for the tourist tax to be scrapped.
Eight million euros of tourist tax sought for historic Palma building
Can Serra was bought by the Balearic government with revenue from the old ecotax.
Forty-six tourist tax projects have been completed
Approval has been given for 170 projects.
Partido Popular say they will repeal the tourist tax
The PP are already gearing up for the 2023 elections.
The Blog: Regional nationalism and the tourist tax
Why was a tourist tax introduced in the first place?
The tides of March: the week in Mallorca
Easter was the tourism goal; Mallorca's hoteliers were descending into penury; and might the airports be closed?
Heritage
Alaro Castle purchase is not a "strategic project"
Tourist tax revenue had been earmarked for Alaro Castle.
Tourist tax
Government defending reallocation of tourist tax revenue
Tourist tax revenue looks set to be used to meet "primary needs".
- Spain wants Britons to show they have 113.40 euros, £97, per day for their holidays
- Big changes on the horizon when Britons travel to Mallorca
- Over two hours for Britons to get through Palma airport queues
- Palma Airport passport control "collapse" put down to unscheduled flights
- Living in a motorhome in Palma: "It'll only get worse"
Comment
No, to higher tax
It should be spent on projects which will benefit tourism not on housing or agriculture.
Jason Moore23/09/2022 10:36