British tourists led an increase of 5.2% in holiday bookings to the Balearic Islands last week, despite the concern that increasing popularity causes the costs of living costs. The number of holidaymakers on their way to Mallorca, Ibiza, Menorca and Forentera rose by 5.2% last week compared to the same period last year and by 14.8% week -on week, according to data from Travelgate. The findings show an unwillingness of international travelers – including a high percentage of British – to scare off the islands through a growing tide of recoil of residents.
The locals frustrated over a wrestling housing market and weakened infrastructure, exacerbated by hordes of foreign visitors, the streets of Mallorca – the largest land mass in the archipelago – have countless times in the past year, with further demonstrations for the rest of this summer. While the growing tide of British holidaymakers on their way to the Balearics has no signs of decrease, some have noticed the consequences of overtourism itself – including a peak in food and drink.
“What used to cost about € 50 per head, and that does not always include alcohol, is now € 70 and the staff gives me the feeling that I am doing a big favor by being here and going to their location,” a visitor told the Mallorca Daily Bulletin.
“Why does Mallorca get so expensive, while, more often than not, you don’t get value for money?”
While British tourism rose by 9% in Mallorca in May, with around 310,000 people who descended on the West Middelandse Sea Island, British tourist Edward Fox simultaneously sounded alarm about “drastically raised” prices -warning that it was the risk of becoming “priceless” for one of the most important reliable virtils.
“I sometimes went on holiday three times a year in Mallorca, at least twice a year, more than 30 years for about three weeks every time I come,” he wrote in the MDB.
“In the past five or six years I have not only noted a drastic increase in not only hotel and accommodation prices, but also the increase in food, drinks [and] Restaurant prices. “
“[Alongside this,] The increase in the ‘tourist tax’ to around € 4 per person per night, subject to an additional 10% [proposed] Tax, is incredible and priceless for most British tourists who come to Mallorca, “he added.
“Go Gang Mallorca, bite the hand that has [come] For this island, so much money in your tourism, infrastructure, government, hotelier bags … during the best part of 40 years. American tourists bite back. “
Although the “bite” does not seem to have been completely felt yet, new regulations for short -term rental that are in force on July 1 can further alienate holidaymakers – with tourist bosses who warn that some British can even see their booked accommodation “disappear”, including Airbnb and Booking.com, perhaps even more stimulans to spend the summer.
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