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Scottish Sun
10 hours ago
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- Scottish Sun
Brit tourists face holiday chaos with strikes confirmed for 180,000 hospitality staff throughout July on hotspot islands
Walkouts have already crippled the holiday destinations this month HOLS CHAOS Brit tourists face holiday chaos with strikes confirmed for 180,000 hospitality staff throughout July on hotspot islands STRIKES have been confirmed for 180,000 hospitality staff throughout July on a number of hotspot islands. Hotels, restaurants and night-life venues in the Balearic Islands will be hit by the walkouts, sparking chaos for thousands of British tourists. Mallorca, Ibiza and Menorca which are usually bursting with holidaymakers will be affected by the strikes. The alert was raised on June 26 after unions walked out of meeting where issues of pay and working conditions were being discussed. The UGT union rejected the 11 per cent wage increase offer, calling it insufficient. The strikes are expected to persist across the whole of the month with 18, 19, 25, 31 July confirmed as protest days. José García Relucio, General Secretary of the Federation of Services, Mobility and Consumption of UGT, said the talks "could not have gone worse" and condemned employers' inflexibility around pay. Meanwhile, Javier Vich, President of the Hotel Business Federation of Mallorca, blamed unions for failing to meet a compromise. He added that employers were making all the "necessary efforts" to "reach a fair" agreement with workers. Unions are demanding a 16 per cent increase in pay for workers but hospitality bosses have insisted 11 per cent is already big enough.
The Irish Sun
10 hours ago
- Business
- The Irish Sun
Brit tourists face holiday chaos with strikes confirmed for 180,000 hospitality staff throughout July on hotspot islands
STRIKES have been confirmed for 180,000 hospitality staff throughout July on a number of hotspot islands. Hotels, restaurants and night-life venues in the Balearic Islands will be hit by the walkouts, sparking chaos for thousands of British tourists. 2 Strikes are expected across the Balearic Islands next month Credit: Getty 2 Hotels, restaurants and night-life venues in the Balearic Islands will be hit by the walkouts Credit: Alamy Mallorca, Ibiza and Menorca which are usually bursting with holidaymakers will be affected by the strikes. The alert was raised on June 26 after unions walked out of meeting where issues of pay and working conditions were being discussed. The UGT union rejected the 11 per cent wage increase offer, calling it insufficient. The strikes are expected to persist across the whole of the month with 18, 19, 25, 31 July confirmed as protest days. José García Relucio, General Secretary of the Federation of Services, Mobility and Consumption of UGT, said the talks "could not have gone worse" and condemned employers' inflexibility around pay. Meanwhile, Javier Vich, President of the Hotel Business Federation of Mallorca, blamed unions for failing to meet a compromise. He added that employers were making all the "necessary efforts" to "reach a fair" agreement with workers. Unions are demanding a 16 per cent increase in pay for workers but hospitality bosses have insisted 11 per cent is already big enough.
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Majorcan government issues fresh warning to UK tourists as hotel leaders speak out
The Balearic Government has repeated the message that limits on tourists need to be set, despite claims that Majorca is not 'overcrowded'. Antoni Costa, the vice-president and spokesperson for the government, said that their stance had not changed on tourism and said 'we must talk about limits'. His comments come after the president of the Mallorca Hoteliers Federation, Javier Vich, slammed the suggestion that Majorca was 'an overcrowded holiday destination', calling it 'utterly false', while attending the ITB tourism fair in Berlin this week. When asked about the remarks at a press conference on Thursday, Antoni Costa said that the government's position had not changed, and that the holiday destination 'cannot' continue to grow with the same pattern, and that the islands 'have reached their limit', Majorca Daily Bulletin reports. READ MORE: Woman films TikTok from car and people are horrified to learn who she is READ MORE: 'Once in a lifetime' archaeology find as 4,000-year-old 'second Stonehenge' unearthed in 'extraordinary' find He said that "It is necessary to take into account the well-being of the residents." He also described the problem of 'the first magnitude'. The government has recently announced its new plans for a sustainable tourism model, which included proposals such as taxing low-budget flights. According to local reports, the comments from the hotel association boss were likely made to send a positive message to the German tourism market, and 'while he was right in intimating that the whole island doesn't suffer from overcrowding, public opinion tends to believe otherwise.' Last year demonstrations against mass-tourism were held across the Balearic Islands as residents raised concerns over the impact of visitors. Responding to the upheaval, the Balearic Government has emphasised the need to introduce a sustainable tourism model. But suggestions such as raising tourism taxes have been met with backlash from business leaders. Vich also stated that the federation doesn't agree with 'any increase to the tourist tax'. There have been plans to increase tourist tax on a seasonal basis, although further details have yet to be announced and it's 'widely believed' to be delayed until 2026. For more of today's top stories, click here.
