Palma17/01/2018 00:00
I met Maria Frontera, the new president of the Majorca Hoteliers Federation, at the World Travel Market fair in London last November and I was impressed. She was president of the Soller association but at the time it was widely rumoured that she was in line for the top job. In London she warned that the islands were facing stiff competition from competing resorts in the eastern Mediterranean, and I remember being struck by her honesty which rather went against the government line which suggested that all was well and that the Balearics had nothing to fear. She also warned against the increase in the rate of the tourist tax, indicating that it would hit the pockets of families.
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What a pathetic editorial comment. Honesty,hotels,at least we know on whose side the Bulletin is on when hotels V rentals!
TGNT. All the countries affected are now deemed safe so we aren’t scared. The tourist tax anti apartment rules and the fact that Majorca in general is expensive now will determine whether you Get the amount of tourists to make the island tenable. Not forgetting the anti tourist brigade. You are in for a rough ride.
UK families are scared to visit Eastern Mediterranean Muslim countries after the UK and European terror attacks. Mallorca offers a safe destination, short flight times and good quality accommodation in hotels and villas. Holiday makers will still be coming to Mallorca in 2018.
I wonder if you will still be impressed when Majorca has far fewer restaurants,cafes,bars,taxis and other complementary services,together with it's rise in unemployment because the people that used to keep these complementary services in business have gone elsewhere because they can no longer rent an apartment. Majorca is going to be left with nothing but all-inclusive hotels with people spending very little outside the resort,will you be impressed by that.?