The Balearic environmental group GOB is proposing a new tax to be levied on cruise ships docking in the Balearics, similar to one that already exists in Catalonia.
“They are huge consumers of fuel, water and resources and have a socio-environmental impact; cruise ships should have to pay a high tourist tax.”
Tourists who travel by cruise ship and stop over on the islands already pay the tourist tax, but GOB proposes taxing the emissions produced by shipping companies. The most polluting ship that visits Mallorca is a cruise ship and emits as much as 19,000 cars.
The ecologists want the same to be applied to hire car and boat rental companies, among other activities that have an impact on the territory, in order to promote ecological taxation, which is more developed in other countries.
They are calling call for the same for quarries, power plants and airplanes, while GOB propose a tax on large water consumers, such as large hotels and golf courses, but also tax benefits for ecological farms and the recovery of crops and land, or livestock and fishing.
The same is required for companies that save more energy and water through contracts with green and socially fair schemes.