Balearics illegal holiday lets: 80% reduction in fines in exchange for social renting
The maximum fine for illegal holiday letting is increasing from 400,000 to 500,000 euros.
Tourism of excesses decree fine for the sale of alcohol was not "unconstitutional"
A fine of 60,000 euros was imposed for breaching the ban on the sale of alcohol.
Balearics island wages war on horseshoe snake
A total of 95 snake traps will be installed, 85 of which will be distributed around Dragonera, especially on the east coast, from the Tramuntana lighthouse to the Llebeig lighthouse.
Flourishing Mallorca film industry at threat from Trump
Former senior Commerce official William Reinsch, a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said retaliation against Trump’s film tariffs would be devastating.“The retaliation will kill our industry. We have a lot more to lose than to gain,” he said.
Theme of the Week
Protest-free island
The unions have been threatening to make this year a massive protest in favour of hospitality workers, as the negotiations for the new collective bargaining agreement have been getting nowhere. Strike action that could disrupt the tourism season is becoming more likely.
Crunch vote on foreigners buying Balearic property this week
Call for express authorisation from the European institutions for restrictions on the purchase of homes by foreigners.
Another Mallorcan town takes to social media in attacking overtourism
AI images in the style used in a Soller campaign.
Mallorca invaded by cruise ships
If the APB’s forecasts for 2025 are met, cruise arrivals in Palma will grow by 4.84% this year. Between January and December 2025, 551 ships will arrive with a capacity for more than 1.8 million passengers.
The area of Mallorca that the Rolling Stones fell in love with
Ron Wood did fall in love with Mallorca, returning in 2010, this time to Alcudia.
British airport boozing controls on the horizon
"We don’t allow people to drink-drive, yet we keep putting them up in aircraft at 33,000 feet.”
Mallorca flights could be hit by Gatwick strike this month
There will be double the disruption at London Gatwick Airport in May and June as workers represented by Unite at two firms are set to strike, with some overlap in the industrial action.
Slight increase in March tourism in Mallorca, but the UK was down over 20%
The early Easter in 2024 has to be taken into account, but UK tourism also fell in January and February.
Tourists splashing the cash in Mallorca
Spanish tourists predominate among the main nationalities that have made bookings in the last seven days through Travelgate: Spaniards accounted for 46.4%, followed by the British with 25.4% and Germans with 4.1%, and Americans and French, both with 2.6%.
