At one of Mallorca’s most popular resorts (Spain’s Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean), restaurateurs have said they will no longer allow tourists dressed as drunk. The owners of restaurants and nightclubs have united and introduced a dress code for travelers, and statesmen, that in terms of rudeness, drunkenness, and rudeness this summer season is again lost to the Spanish island.
Representatives of the business of the resort area of Playa de Palma, where British tourists like to rest, say that locals are fed up with the so-called “drunk tourism”, although the season has just begun, Spanish media reported. Now a group of restaurants in the resort has teamed up to introduce a new dress code that all tourists must follow, otherwise, the latter will be denied access.
The list that it is forbidden to wear to a restaurant on the Spanish resort islands:
- Swimwear
- Any accessories bought from street vendors, such as gold chains or hats that glow in the dark.
- Strapless T-shirts
- Swimming trunks
- T-shirts
- Any clothing with inscriptions that promote “drunk tourism”
So far, the ban has been supported by 11 restaurants, all of which are associated with the Palma Beach brand, but there are likely to be others.
How do I know if a restaurant supports the new dress code? The establishments placed QR-codes at the entrance so that visitors could check the requirements of the establishment for tourists. “The situation on public roads is now worse than in 2017, 2018, and 2019. We already consider the season lost in terms of control over rudeness and rudeness. We need the support of the authorities because neither the organization nor the residents can stop it, “said Palma Beach CEO Juanmi Ferrer.
The resort areas are full of street vendors and shops selling weird novelties such as umbrella hats or backlit sunglasses. Restaurants that supported the new rules said that these accessories do not fit into the environment of quality restaurants that involve only “simple clothes”.
They warned that while there may be some flexibility during the day, there will be no tolerance for an appearance at night. Juanmi Ferrer said the goal was not to “ban” but to “re-educate” tourists through “friendly ways of communicating” so that they would understand that their attitudes should change during repeated visits to the restaurant.
Hotel owners told the Spanish newspaper Diario de Mallorca that police could not stop street parties or “large groups of tourists seeking to get drunk only on public roads or even on the beach.”
Palm Beach manager Pedro Marin said that this contingent usually books a small number of nights in hotels, stays for three or four nights, and spends about 30 or 40 euros a day, usually on alcohol and cans of beer they consume on the street. According to him, they arrive at the hotel in the morning and are so drunk that they can’t even walk. Their companions do not try to resist this, but simply leave to lie on the sidewalk before the tourist wakes up and comes to his senses.
The resort authorities are outraged by this behavior in public places and say police officers should be able to impose fines on the spot, as is the case in other civilized countries that value their reputation because the problem is on the resort’s streets.
Earlier, the DIP wrote that “In Spain, the operation begins “Summer 2022”: tourists will be supervised by a 45,000-strong army of the police and the National Guard“.