The Council of Mallorca has definitively cancelled the process for the sale and allocation of 654 holiday rental places (beds) that were left in limbo due to computer problems last September.
The Consortium for Tourist Accommodation Exchange is contacting all interested parties who registered an application and informing them of the impossibility of completing the process. The licences will therefore remain pending until a viable system can be found that guarantees all the safeguards of the competitive bidding process.
The problems began on September 1, the day the process was scheduled to begin. The online identification system failed, and the process was postponed until the following day. On September 2, the problems continued: the flood of applications caused the system to crash. It was later confirmed that the high demand had overwhelmed the system.
It was concluded that it would not be possible to establish an order of priority for applications; the process was therefore declared null and void. It would be impossible to guarantee the principle of equality among the interested parties.