Occupancy forecast at 90%

Jo Pugh

THE Hotel Business Federation of Mallorca (FEHM) foresees a 90 per cent hotel occupation in July, although this could depend on the threatened strikes called by 1,000 ground staff at Gatwick airport.

In a press conference, the president of the FEHM, María Frontera, indicated that these stoppages, scheduled for Friday, July 28 to Tuesday, August 1, and then again from Friday, August 4 to Tuesday, August 8, could affect the final figures.

Frontera explained that in June, Mallorca registered an occupancy of 82 per cent, from Front page

The tax changes, Prohens detailed, apply both to inheritances due to death and to succession agreements or ‘living inheritances’, which have their own regulation in Balearic civil law.

The same decree has included the elimination of the property transfer tax for the purchase of a first home by people under 30 years of age and people with disabilities, with an annual income some 3 per cent below that of last year.

“June was affected by strikes and adverse weather conditions,” she explained.