It seems a very similar situation to Cornwall. Tourists coming in, propping up tourism centric businesses, and pricing out the locals. Obviously they're not calling for tourism to cease entirely, so it would be striking that balance of "Mallorca's economy benefits significantly from tourism" and "outside of tourism, normal Mallorcans are unable to live".

Limiting foreign tourism might help "normal" settlements, but would the business owners of touristy places like Magaluf be happy if their potential customer base was being slashed. Can't see pirate themed dinner shows thriving without the pool of tens of thousands of Brits/Germans to draw from.

Bloody temporary immigrants.

>>41540
I think this points to the problem in how all of this is coached to consumers. As a filthy London urbanite I mostly just laugh when some rich wanker gets his second-home in Cornwall vandalised but there's little common cause being made in the pressures of home ownership or how prosperity is both scarce and centred inside of the M25.

Basically what I'm saying is a moderate position that we should ride on horseback with nets like in planet of the apes and capture politicians, then we should lock them in cages until they solve the pressing issues we all face.

Would a tourist tax fix this? I went to Iceland and the hotel charged me a few quid for not being Icelandic, and I didn't mind at all even though the hotel receptionist was Polish and nobody in Iceland is Icelandic. You're going to be pissing away your money on holiday anyway, and everything's expensive in Iceland so £5 or £10 or whatever really didn't matter.

Give those Mallorcans some nicer houses to live in, or even just buses and weekly bin collections, and they'll be living like kings.

>>41543
If taxes solved all our problems then why is everything so shit?

>>41543

You could probably use a tourist tax to subsidise housing and low incomes for the natives. That would make housing more attainable for the poorer locals. But having talked to a few people in Majorca and the Canaries myself, it isn't just the affordability of flats and houses that is the problem. It's the overcrowding of the islands by the sheer number of tourists in summer and for much of the year, which makes things like beaches, restaurants, and all kinds of other public places a hassle to use and enjoy. During high season, there are now constant traffic jams all day long on the roads leading to all the popular beaches in Majorca. Even the tiniest picturesque mountain villages are now overrun by sightseers. And many locals also feel like it dilutes their regional identity, especially when those tourists show little respect and interest in their culture. Also, the fact that every single inch of coastline is increasingly being built up with hotels, apartment complexes, and other infrastructure that exclusively caters to tourists.

So in that sense, to really address what upsets the locals, besides expensive housing, you would have to reduce the number of tourists as a whole. Which you obviously can't do with a few quid of tourist tax. You'd have to make the entire holiday so expensive that 20 to 30 percent of all tourists would be priced out of the market.

>>41544
Wages are low, so we simultaneously pay a high percentage of our incomes in tax, and yet don't actually pay that much in terms of what that percentage can actually afford when the government tries to spend it.

A lot of places that are totally economically reliant on tourism have sort of forgotten that fact, because they had a couple of years in which people weren't allowed to travel and the government bailed everyone out. They got a taste of having the place to themselves, without facing the economic consequences of the collapse of their only real industry.