The seven Mallorca municipalities where 10% or more of homes are holiday lets
Four of the seven have resident populations below 1,000.
Mallorca hoteliers calling for government "courage" by not renewing apartment holiday let licences
The government now needs to get parliamentary support, and this isn't going to be straightforward.
Holiday lets, legal and illegal, a focus for Mallorca tourist containment measures
The government says measures will be "more ambitious" than originally thought.
Balearics looking to ban all holiday lets in apartments
Legal formulas are being studied to introduce a ban without running the risk of compensation demands.
91,000 homes needed to solve Balearic housing crisis
"Lack of housing fuelled the anti tourism marches of last summer.."
A holiday home on the island
A holiday home on the island.
Airbnb to provide a Mallorca phone service for residents to report "disturbances"
For reporting Airbnb tourist noise, vandalism and anti-social behaviour.
The housing problem is driving the anti-mass tourism movement.
The housing problem is driving the anti-mass tourism movement.
Mallorca - "A neo-tourism in which residents are second or third-class people"
The Forum for Civil Society is highly critical of the Balearic Government's pact for the sustainability of tourism.
Tourism alliance says holiday rentals have been the "trigger" for Mallorca protests
Hotels have had a "limited role" in adding supply and therefore bringing about overtourism.
Holiday rental property in Mallorca
The holiday rentals association is dead against tax being charged.
VAT will not be charged on Mallorca holiday lets ... for now
There is still the possibility of amendment to the EU VAT directive.
Will holiday rentals go from zero VAT to 21%?
The Spanish Government hopes this tax change will put holiday rentals back on the market for permanent residential letting.
When are the illegals going to be outlawed?
“When will the local authorities start really cracking down on illegal holiday rentals?”
One of Mallorca's most common holidaymaker complaints - bad weather
Five common complaints by holiday rental guests; all holidaymakers are likely to complain if it rains.
Tourism promotion money to be spent instead on tackling Mallorca's illegal holiday lets
"We do not need to dedicate so much effort in making Mallorca known."
How to detonate a tourism row bomb
The hoteliers are furious with the Partido Popular, their supposed 'friend', and the holiday rentals association is likewise angered.
Don't blame holiday lets for Mallorca tourist overcrowding - says the holiday lets association
"We feel like we are everyone's scapegoat, not just the hoteliers."
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Comment
Illegal letting: How’s anyone supposed to make sense of the figures?
The most bizarre figure was one that suggested there were some 235,000 illegal lets in the Balearics.
Andrew Ede21/02/2025 12:08