“The excesses are particularly great”: drinking tourism spoils a good season at the Ballermann

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The hotels in the area in the southwest of the Spanish Mediterranean island, which is extremely popular especially among German tourists, were on average almost 87 percent full, the Association of Hoteliers of Playa (AHPP) announced on Friday.

“This is a very good value and comparable to that of the years before the corona pandemic,” association president Pedro Marín told journalists. The AHPP announced that the 2019 value was exceeded by approximately two percentage points, just like last year, but with a significantly lower figure. The increases are all the more astonishing when you consider that room rates in the Balearic Islands have risen by an average of 10.9 percent compared to the previous year.

But Marín doesn’t feel like celebrating. The increasingly poor behavior of many Playa visitors clouds the good figures. The 47-year-old spoke clearly: in terms of excesses and booze tourism, it was “one of the worst seasons of all time”.

During the last holiday period there were arguments every week. Drunk holidaymakers stagger on the street when they are sober and often become aggressive. An alleged gang rape in July – four Germans are still in custody – and the murder of a German in October are particularly striking.

According to Marin, the Ballermann is the root of evil. This year, 185 holidaymakers were evicted from the hotel for bad behaviour. 90 percent of them are in the party mile area. 62 percent of those affected are German, 25 percent Austrian or Swiss. (SDA)

Source: Blick