More boozy Brits are heading to Magaluf than EVER BEFORE…. despite a local crackdown on outrageous sex and drug-fuelled antics
Statistics reveal a record-breaking 190,000 flew in and out of Majorca on Saturday
RECORD numbers of wild Brits are heading to Magaluf - despite a clampdown on its outrageous sex and drug fuelled reputation.
While local tourist bosses vow to scrub clean its seedy image, it looks like party animals just can't get enough of the resort they love to call "Shagaluf."
Statistics reveal a record-breaking 190,000 people flew in and out of Majorca on Saturday, with more than 1,100 planes touching down at Palma Airport.
Palma is Spain’s third busiest airport with 3.3m Brits passing through last year.
However, EVEN MORE are expected this summer and 55 per cent of Brits that touch down will head straight to the island's wildest town.
Nearly all of them will be under 30s looking for fun - despite what the local authorities say.
The news comes amid moves to make the resort a family-friendly haven for the middle classes.
And even though the clampdown has already begun it's clear it is not changing the antics of many.
One holiday rep said the plans to clean up the resort were doomed before they even started.
He said: "This is Magaluf, not Butlins. People come here to go wild and let ther hair down."
Another added: "You will never stop them drinking and if they want to strip and go wild, they'e going to strip and go wild."
In recent weeks, 22 people have been fined for having sex in public in Magaluf .
And hotels are now drawing up a blacklist of guests who are being BANNED from staying on the island because of rowdy behaviour.
The moves are part of their campaign to hit back at “anything goes” drunken tourism for which the island has become infamous.
The local mayor has told Brit tourists seeking "debauchery" in the town they are not wanted - and called on bars to get rid of Happy Hours and cheap drinks deals.
Alfonso Rodriguez Badal is desperate to rid the resort of its "Shagaluf" image, and says boozed-up Brits are not wanted.
He called on bar owners in areas like Magaluf party strip Punta Ballena to stop offering alcohol at knockdown prices and help transform the holiday hotspot.
His comments come after incidents involving Brit tourists threatened to derail attempts to distance Magaluf from its infamous nickname.
Magaluf’s reputation took a devastating nosedive three years ago after a British teenager was filmed performing sex acts on a string of men in a bar.
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Council chiefs and entrepreneurs have been working hard to turn things around with the launch of new hotels, infrastructures and leisure facilities, coupled with a crackdown on bad behaviour with new by-laws to tackle bar crawls, street drinking and public nakedness.
Last year officials began to highlight the fact that the number of families and couples visiting the resort, part of the municipality of Calvia, had risen and the number of young travellers was down.
In a hard-hitting opinion piece published by a local paper, Mr Rodriguez Badal, whose municipality of Calvia includes Magaluf and its less brash neighbour of Palmanova, said: “Resistance to change must be defeated.
“We cannot allow ourselves to maintain offers anchored in the past of ‘Everything goes’ or in the mantra that ‘the worst tourist is the one who doesn’t come.’"
He said tourists looking for "debauchery" would be "best off not coming" at all.
“The aggressive and excessive offer of free alcohol is one of the obvious causes of these outrages that we are suffering."
He said Happy Hours, two-for-one deals and free bars should be "terminated".
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