Wales aiming to copy Balearics with similar tourist tax
"The move is deeply opposed by the Welsh travel industry...."
Palma airport
Palma airport.
Comment: More tourist taxes
The Balearics is showing no signs of scrapping the tax, now Valencia is having one.
Comment: Will Mallorca get more cash?
So, the Balearics are going to pay yet more income tax to Madrid, what’s the return?
Taxing issue
“The tourist tax was introduced to ease the environmental footprint of mass tourism not for rock concerts...”
A vaxxing normal Christmas: the week in Mallorca
Christmas normality depended on citizens doing their duty; lights were going up and hopefully not going off; and what about the tourist tax?
Why was a tourist tax introduced in the first place?
Why was a tourist tax introduced in the first place?
Go-ahead for Palma Cathedral illumination project
Two projects: the other is renovation of the Parc de la Mar.
Senseless legislation
“No senseless legislation in these hard times please...now is not the time...”
Partido Popular call for tourist tax to be suspended in 2021
The PP have proposed various measures, including ones for the self-employed.
Booze ban benefits
At the time it was a bold move to take but it could prove key for resort businesses.
The Week in Tourism
Employment rise, but then ...
All very encouraging, therefore. But that was February; this is March.
Should the Balearics lift the tourist tax?
Majorca
A state of alert: the week in Majorca
The rapidly evolving crisis; tourist tax; noise; and Sir Paul Preston.
A tourist, a friend
“The demise of Thomas Cook has underlined the fact that this island depends on tourism for its livelihood.”
Comment
The politics of tourist taxes
Is political ideology driving tourist taxes?
Andrew Ede20/04/2022 09:00