Overview
- Spain’s CCOO union has put forward a €15 per person, per night levy for stays in July and August across Mallorca, Ibiza, Menorca and Formentera.
- Current Balearic tourist tax rates range from about €0.50 to €4 per night depending on season and accommodation, with under-16s exempt and a 50% discount after the eighth night.
- A Sky News-cited example suggests four adults at a luxury resort for two weeks in peak season would pay €840 in taxes under the proposal, up from €224 now.
- Roughly 27% of the 18 million Britons who visit Spain each year travel to the Balearics, so a hike would hit a large group of UK holidaymakers if adopted.
- The proposal forms part of a wider package responding to overtourism and housing pressures, including a freeze on new tourist accommodation licences and a call to build 40,000 social homes, and it has not been enacted by the regional government.