The tourism decree approved by the Government will make it possible to reduce the maximum number of tourist places allowed on the island without waiting for the modification of the PIAT

The Consell de Mallorca will lower the ceiling of tourist places allowed on the island using a plenary agreement thanks to the tourism decree recently approved by the Govern, which simplifies the process and speeds up the deadlines as it will not be necessary to wait for the modification of the Plan de Intervención de Ámbitos Turísticos (PIAT).

This was stated at a press conference by the Councillor for Tourism, José Marcial Rodríguez Díaz, who appeared accompanied by the island’s Director of Tourism for Supply and Quality, Clara del Moral, who expressed her satisfaction at ‘the approval of this decree, as it fulfils and meets the main demands that the Consell de Mallorca had made to the government’.

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The Consell de Mallorca will lower the ceiling of tourist places using a plenary agreement

In this way, the new ceiling on tourist places, whose only prerequisite to be taken to plenary session is the preparation of a study of the load, will become a reality as soon as possible, thus fulfilling the announcement made last year by the president of the Consell de Mallorca, to continue to adopt ‘courageous measures’ to avoid ‘putting at risk the coexistence between residents and tourists’.

In Rodríguez’s words, thanks to this decree, which will make it possible to lower the ceiling on the number of places through a plenary agreement, the Consell de Mallorca will be able to ‘continue promoting a tourism policy of zero-volume growth’. ‘We have always argued that we cannot continue to move forward in a disorderly manner as we have done so far, it is time to commit to containment, and that is the reason why months ago we decided to set a ceiling on bedplaces,’ said the councillor.

Rodríguez also stressed that this decree is perfectly in line with one of the Consell de Mallorca’s flagship initiatives, which is the fight against illegal supply in the tourism sector. In this line, not only does it increase the penalties against illegal tourist rentals, as the Consell de Mallorca did last summer, increasing the fines for this activity from 40,000 to 80,000 euros, but it also goes further and prohibits the creation of new places in multi-family dwellings.

Finally, the councillor for Tourism highlighted the fact that the new regulations allow the exchange of vacancies between private individuals, a way of encouraging activity without increasing vacancies, ‘as the Consell de Mallorca has always advocated’.