The president of the Govern, Margalida Prohens, has announced that the reform of the law to seal the illegal tourist offer will be approved this week. The announcement was made at the presentation of the Tourism Awards 2023 of the Nit del Turisme held at the Caló de s’Oli Auditorium in Sant Josep de sa Talaia, Ibiza
The president of the Government, Margalida Prohens, has assured that the objective of the Balearic Executive is “to combat the illegal tourist offer, putting all the tools and collaborating with the councils against intrusiveness”. In this way, she announced that “this week we approved the legal reform that will allow the councils to seal illegal tourist apartments, a need that the Consell d’Eivissa has been claiming for a long time”. The regulation will allow the councils to seal in a precautionary way the apartments that are rented irregularly to tourists in the islands. A need that has been demanded by the insular institutions that assure that it is not enough to increase the fines, but it is necessary to immediately remove from the market the illegal tourist offer.
New tourism law and eco-tax
Image of the award winners at the Nit del Turisme 2023. Photo: Govern.
Prohens also said that the Govern is preparing a new legislative framework, referring to the new tourism law that hopes to approve before the summer of 2024, “agreed with everyone, which does not renounce what is good or positive and that returns to bet on a tourism generator or perhaps we must begin to say regenerator of opportunities and welfare”.
On the tourist tax, Prohens added that we must be sincere with the tourists who visit the Balearic Islands “and if we tell them that the tax they pay for their stay will revert to the destination with investments to improve the quality of supply, and compensate the footprint they leave this should be the destination of this tax, this and not another”.
The Tourism Awards 2023 of the Nit del Turisme has been organized by the Tourism Strategy Agency of the Balearic Islands (AETIB) and have awarded among others Garden Hotels, for its Circular FP project of vocational training in the work environment with regard to the circular economy; Caritas Menorca, and its training center Ca N’Aguedet, for its work to improve opportunities for the insertion of people over thirty and long-term unemployed; Hotelbeds, as one of the leading companies in the TravelTech space globally; or Antoni Cifre, posthumously for his career dedicated to tourism, his professionalism and his work towards the image and reputation of Pollença, among others.
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