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Meanwhile, Diario de Mallorca issued the following: “Palma Local Police asked citizens to use the car only for important trips due to the avalanche of tourists taking advantage of the cloudy day to visit the city centre”, but because it was not raining “Palma Small and Medium Business Employers Association (Pimeco ), asked the government to change or cancel the agreement limiting the arrival of cruise ships” was also presented to everyone. The business launched this ‘SOS message’: «Tourists to the island do not visit Palma during the warmer months, but only on cloudy days. The city is a desert and the shops are surviving thanks to cruise passengers, and the few cloudy days that left us behind that summer were when tourists and residents were encouraged to go out and buy.” And this is despite the fact that the record number of flights in aviation history in Spain in July was broken by 223,107 operations in a month – 6% from last year with an average of 7,197 flights per day, according to Enaire, an organization affiliated with the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (Mitma). ,6 more. “Hands up, it’s a docking!” On the other side of its drama, the international Transport and Environment Association (T&E) has released data on toxic air pollutant emissions from cruise ships in European ports in 2022. however, it has exceeded pre-pandemic levels. Cruise ships are already polluting more than all the cars in the cities they visit and Mediterranean cargo. Specifically, two of the four most affected cities are Spanish: Barcelona in first place and Mallorca in fourth place, with 106 cruise ships emitting the same amount of sulfur oxide (SOx) as 531,749 cars and 79 ships equivalent to 248,207 cars respectively.

And yet another August headline was published in Information magazine: «Tourism proposes to delay the start of the course to prolong the high season and prevent heatstroke. The industry believes that September could hit the mark if parents didn’t have to take their kids to school. Although these reports differ in geography and appearance, it is easy to find the lowest common denominator: come —in a group —, consume, and disperse, please.

And if the reader—like this writer—is single or poor—yes, this isn’t a Senate vote, and they can all be flagged—another summer article in La Vanguardia remains a consolation: «’Staycation’: Staying at home for the holidays in August is getting more and more ‘cool’» and this saves a term that combines two concepts published in The Washington Post in 2005: “stay (stay) and take vacation (vacation). So ‘stay home during the holidays’. But beware at home! None of the selfish attempts to drink some wine a la fresca at a table on a terrace, or if one is going to get around purely by looking at the labels, is the unassisted trip to the center by car that crashes the road to get to the shops.

Not all heroes wear capes, and sometimes the best way to save the hospitality industry is to know when it’s time to step aside and be home alone, alone, alone, very alone. In order to cope with this loneliness and not be exposed to unnecessarily heated news, I recommend that you switch between summer-local news and foreign news. The same Transport and Environment report, Venice port bans cruises in 2021, SOx emissions in the city were reduced by 80%. Or, of course, Amsterdam, which has just joined this ship ban to reduce pollution and also the visitor base. Or Portugal, which has just approved the ‘Mais Habitação’ (More Housing) program, which prohibits the issuance of new licenses for touristic apartments in main cities – except for rural settlements in inland municipalities, which is the equivalent of ‘Spain evacuated’. – Tax benefits to owners who transfer touristic homes for rent and the possibility of revoking the license already granted with the agreement of two-thirds of the owners community.

There is hope! If you’ll excuse me, I’ll drop you off and continue on my way to the refrigerator. We’ll have to toast with a (Port) wine.