Majorca, Menorca, Ibiza confirm new charge for UK tourists 'from summer 2025'

Majorca, Menorca, Ibiza confirm new charge for UK tourists 'from summer 2025'
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Majorca, Menorca and Ibiza are introducing a hiked tourist tax for British holidaymakers. The Balearic government in the European Union have announced this morning that the rate of the tourist tax would increase next summer.

It marks one of their key policies to limit tourist overcrowding. Balearic President Marga Prohens did not say how much it would rise by but there has been speculation that it could double. Five star hotel guests already pay four euros per day per person.

The Balearic government said that the tax would rise in the summer and fall in the winter. A tourism official said: "Since July 1st 2016, the Tax for Sustainable Tourism is levied on all overnight stays in tourist accommodations on the Balearic Islands.

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"Thanks to the contribution, we are able to make major investments to compensate the territorial and environmental impact of tourism on Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera..." Responding to the news, one Brit fumed: "It may be a separate line item on the invoice, but it's EU law that the TOTAL price, including all taxes and fees is presented at booking time, and they are obliged to pay the total price given.

"So, they pay it at booking time (or whatever other payment arrangements have been made, but it's included in the total price they agree to and pay). We don't collect it separately. It's a line item on the invoice though." A second typed: "Is this the same PP who were against the tourist tax when they were in opposition?"

A third chimed in to say: "This will work. Not." And another chipped in saying: "I'd be surprised if most people even know they're paying it, unless they look at the breakdown on the invoice. It's not exactly a fortune anyway (OK, maybe a point of contention for those seeking the cheapest, but it's still in the price they agree to, and there's nobody holding a gun to their head demanding they book it)."