Magaluf holds international summit to stop boozy Brits turning resorts into holiday hellholes
UK and German tour operators, the British Embassy, the Spanish Tourism Bureau in London and hoteliers were all invited to the crackdown meeting.
MAGALUF bosses called an international summit to stop boozy Brits from turning the resorts into holiday hellholes.
UK and German tour operators, the British Embassy, the Spanish Tourism Bureau in London and hoteliers were all invited to the crackdown meeting.
The Government of the Balearic Islands wants to put an end to bad behaviour and violence, especially from the Brits who flock to the resort each summer.
So officials organised the summit – which took place in Palma on Wednesday - to debate proposed policy changes for the resorts and airlines.
“Excessive alcohol intake by air passengers has economic, medical and welfare ramifications, and is identified as a top three risk to aviation safety,” the event description states.
“Incidents on airplanes may in the worst scenarios endanger the lives of many.
“Apart from the nuisance incurred to the other passengers, drunkenness on airplanes causes flights to be diverted, distracts the cabin crew from their normal safety duties and implies a hazard in emergency evacuations.
“Thus, excessive alcohol consumption seems to be continuing beyond the flight itself, causing anti-social behaviour and danger to tourists’ health.
“In this sense, dangerous practices and uncivil behaviour appear in some tourist destinations.”
PROPOSED BAN ON ALL-INCLUSIVE DEALS
A proposed ban on free-flowing alcohol in all-inclusive hotels in Majorca and Ibiza was just one of the topics up for discussion.
The summit comes just months after a ban was put on booze cruises and pub crawls in Magaluf.
Last year, Magaluf also introduced tougher "on-the-spot" penalties, with fines for anti-social behaviour soaring by at least four times.
Any holidaymaker involved in rowdiness will now be fined £350 (€400) instead of the £87) €100 of 2017 and £437 (€500) euros for any breach of the peace involving alcohol.
The same rise was applied to any tourist caught urinating in the street who will now have to fork out €400 whilst the fine for going naked or semi-naked in a public place was doubled to €400 as well.
Calvià council, which covers all the main tourist hotspots in and around Magaluf, published a revised list of existing sanctions which were increased in price.
One of the main objectives was to tackle drinking in the street and bottle parties, one of the most common problems during the tourist season.
FINE TIME Increased fines being introduced in Magaluf
1. €500 fine for any event organiser breaching alcohol rules.
2. €400 fine for any act or individual who "goes against the composure, order and urbanity required for social coexistence"
3. €400 fine for urinating in a public place.
4. €500 fine for the consumption of alcoholic beverages in public spaces causing inconvenience to people who use public space and residents.
5. €500 fine for the consumption of alcoholic beverages seriously disrupting coexistence citizen in a way that deteriorates the tranquility of the environment or provokes unsanitary situations.
6. €500 fine for the consumption of alcoholic beverages seriously disrupting coexistence in a demeaning manner for pedestrians or other users of public spaces.
7. €500 fine for the consumption of alcoholic beverages seriously disrupting coexistence in any place where children might be affected.
8. €500 fine for bottle parties on roads and public spaces of any nature.
9. €400 fine for lack of respect and consideration directed to a member of the Calvià police in the exercise of their role to protect the public.
10. €400 fine for the carrying out of activities and the provision of unauthorised services in a public space, such as tarot, clairvoyance, massage or tattoos.
11. €400 fine for going nude or naked or semi-nude on public roads outside the zones authorised by decree of the Mayor's Office.
12. €400 fine for walking or going on public transport or in a public space without a top, except in swimming pools, beaches or other places where this is normal or as allowed on pavements, streets and roads immediately adjoining the beaches or the rest of the coast.
13. €200 fine for throwing litter down in a public place, especially cigarette butts, chewing gum, peeling, papers, plastics, cans, containers, bottles or similar.
14. €200 fine for putting into operation, on beaches and public places, equipment for sound, amplifiers, speakers of any power, instruments of percussion or similar that can generate a significant acoustic impact on the immediate surroundings.
15. €200 fine for taking alcohol out on to the streets away from the original premises and consuming it on roads or public spaces, regardless of the container used.
16. €100 fine for grafitti on public transport, equipment, street furniture, trees, gardens and public roads in general or climbing over these.