Tourist tax
Guests at Lluc monastery will also have to pay the tourist tax
Monastery accommodation will, according to the tourism ministry, be classified as being equivalent to a hostel.
Tourism
Cruise shipping in the Balearics has risen by 16%
1.41 million passengers came into the five Balearic ports onboard 605 ships, which themselves represented an increase of over 13%.
Business
Cruise industry is worth nearly 300 million euros
Cruise passengers spend an average of 112 euros per day in port.
Tourism
Cruising through autumn
Over 100 hundred cruise-ship visits are likely to have been made through October.
Tourist tax
Over two million euros tourist tax revenue anticipated from cruise ships
The government has yet to establish what will be the minimum stay in Balearic ports.
Tourism
More than one million cruise ship passengers
The Balearic contribution of passenger numbers of ship arrivals was in the region of one-third of August’s total for the whole of Spain.
Tourism
Almost a million Balearic cruise passengers up until July
Spain received 4.29 million cruise ship passengers in the first seven months of the year, an increase of over 11%.
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