Holiday rentals
Only four owners have been fined for illegal rentals
These owners have each been fined 20,001 euros.
Tourism
Hoteliers want tourism minister who knows the subject
The executive vice-president of the Majorca Hoteliers Federation yesterday called on the new government to give the tourist tax a "clear purpose".
Hotels
Busquets insists the government has not stopped hotel renovation
Bel Busquets was described as "the best anti-tourism minister the Balearics have had".
Tourism
Partido Popular say tourism is not a government priority
Tourism minister Bel Busquets has been explaining why there is a lower budget for tourism next year.
Holiday rentals
Onus on owners to prove short-term lets are not for tourists
Fines for supposedly illegal lets can be up to 40,000 euros.
Politics
Biel Barceló: Disappointment and sadness
Biel Barceló believes that Bel Busquets will take to the job of tourism minister "perfectly".
Politics
Bel Busquets is new Balearic tourism minister
The PSOE messages cannot disguise the fact that they were reluctant to accept Busquets.
Politics
Barceló insists that he made the decision to resign
Podemos are wanting input into Barceló's successor as tourism minister and in "influencing, redirecting and redefining policies".
Cursach affair
Barceló called on to clarify Cursach favouritism claim
Suggestions are that the tourism director-general, Pilar Carbonell, expedited a case in respect of MegaPark.
Holiday rentals
Airbnb waiting for "legal interpretation" of rentals legislation
The manager of public relations for Airbnb Spain and Portugal met the tourism ministry yesterday.
- Spain wants Britons to show they have 113.40 euros, £97, per day for their holidays
- Big changes on the horizon when Britons travel to Mallorca
- Over two hours for Britons to get through Palma airport queues
- Palma Airport passport control "collapse" put down to unscheduled flights
- Living in a motorhome in Palma: "It'll only get worse"
Comment
Tourism protests: This time they are different
The anti-tourism protests that occurred in Mallorca a few years ago had a degree of coordination in that they mainly involved agitators like Arran, who also had a political agenda due to close links with Catalan independence groups.
Andrew Ede24/07/2023 17:37