UK travel agents call for Magaluf to clean up its act
Friday, November 14, 2014 @ 7:06 PM
BRITISH tour operators have put Spain's industry minister on the spot demanding to know what he was planning to do about unsavoury antics in Magaluf (Mallorca) which were milked by UK tabloids and reached most of Europe's press this summer.
They are very concerned, as are hoteliers, shopkeepers, bar-owners and restaurateurs in the popular coastal resort area, about losing business if holidaymakers who are not into drunken debauchery decide to boycott the area, or even the island, based upon tales of scandal going viral.
José Manuel Soria attended the World Travel Market tourism trade fair in London this week and was approached by representatives from UK-based holiday companies calling for tougher sanctions – not only for visitors themselves who cause trouble, but for excursion groups organising pub crawls where 'anything goes', and bars allowing or even arranging degrading X-rated activities.
The tour operators claim that at least two of their counterparts – in Italy and in one of the Scandinavian countries – have decided to stop offering holidays in Magaluf, and add that as many as 25,000 fewer Brits have booked to go next year.
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