The region wants to gather 50-80 M additional resources annually for the preservation of the natural environment and improvement of tourism infrastructure of the islands, said the press service of the Autonomous Community.
Promoting a new sustainable tourism model
“This fee will help us promote new tourism model that we defend, oriented towards sustainable development”, pleaded the Deputy Prime Minister of Spain, Biel Barceló.
This would be to collect, in high season from “50 cents to two euros” per day per tourist over 14 years old, depending on the type of establishment.
“We have calculated that the average stay in the archipelago is around eight days”, said a press officer of the autonomous community. “That would make 16 euros for a couple with two children under 14 years old, stayong in a three-star hotel”, she has said as an example.
The bill should be adopted in 2016 in the regional parliament, where a leftist coalition supported the measure has the majority.
With over one million inhabitants, the archipelago welcomes every year nearly eleven million tourists, including many Germans and British.
