Is this the right time to increase the rate of the tourist tax? At a time when many holidaymakers are finding the island increasingly more expensive the Balearic government decides to raise taxes. Tourists in five star hotels are already paying four euros (per person, per day) so the increase could mean that they decide to take their business elsewhere (and this is the type of tourists the island desperately wants to attract).
Why this is not the right time to increase tourist tax
Tourists are already complaning that Mallorca is too expensive and now more tax
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Never thought I would agree with Zoltan, but on this I do. Jason why are you pushing for more low rent tourists? Maybe kickbacks from hotels and airlines to the MDB 🤔
MDB coming from their usual direction of more tourists = good, fewer tourists = bad. An outdated view, this was maybe OK 10-15 years ago, but with tourist numbers at record levels the electorate apparently want this to change. Hence the scramble in government to formulate and implement policies that are squarely directed at tourists by charging them more / discouraging them from coming here whilst shifting the balance between the cheap package holiday crowd and the more upmarket tourists.
You don't seem to get it - the vast majority of the public want a reduction in tourist numbers, which in turn will mean a reduction of tourist workers from the mainland, south America etc. People who stay in 5* hotels aren't going to worry if they have to pay a few euros more.