“With the issue of tourist rentals, no one has been more open than us. When I arrived at the Ministry, there were 800 homes that had been inactive for three or four years. We registered them and expanded from 5,000 to 10,000 [homes]. 80,000 tourist places in holiday homes that are now available thanks to this Government.” The person who said this was not a member of the Pact, but the current mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, one of the politicians with the longest careers within the PP ranks and then Minister of Tourism of the executive of José Ramón Bauzá – he was from December 27, 2013, to May 2015, and before that, he had been Director General of Tourism. These statements can be found in the Official Journal of the Plenary Sessions of the Parliament of February 3, 2015.

The president of the Mallorcan Institute of Social Affairs (IMAS) stated in Thursday's plenary session of the Consell de Mallorca that "the vast majority of homeless They don't want IMAS services because they're not charity; things have changed, and compliance with regulations, schedules, and an individualized care plan is now required." Along the same lines, he emphasized that "IMAS isn't a hotel." Sánchez also referred to the Mobile Emergency Units (UME) that provide services to people living on the streets, saying they "have difficulty getting the homeless to leave the settlements because they don't want to comply with regulations." Furthermore, he pointed out that homelessness "isn't a reality unique to Palma; it occurs in all major European cities and is one of the great challenges of modern societies."

The Governing Board of the Consortium of Tourist Accommodation Places (CBAT), an agency of the Mallorca Council's Tourism Department, agreed this Thursday to postpone the call for applications for existing places, which had been scheduled for this Saturday. According to a statement from the island institution, the Mallorca Council's Tourism Department, in conjunction with the Island Directorate of Modernization, Transparency, and Innovation, is working on a more reliable and secure procedure to ensure equal opportunities for all applicants in the application process for tourist accommodation places in Mallorca. The decision stems from the need to implement a new, robust, and advanced technological procedure that guarantees legal certainty and maximum reliability in the allocation of tourist places, both in hotels and holiday rentals. This initiative, the institution indicated, takes on special relevance in the context of the new tourist accommodation management model approved by the Consell de Mallorca last June. The need to implement this system became clear after difficulties were encountered in previous processes. The Island Councillor for Tourism, José Marcial Rodríguez, highlighted the department's efforts to transform this challenge into an opportunity for innovation. "The fundamental objective is to guarantee the utmost transparency in the process and offer all applicants equal opportunities to obtain accommodations," he asserted. Habtur considers the postponement "scandalous and unjustified."

Habtur deemed the CBAT's decision to postpone indefinitely the call for applications for the pool of tourist accommodation places, scheduled for January, "scandalous and unjustified," leaving the tourist accommodation sector in a state of uncertainty. According to a press release from the tourist accommodation association, after waiting for months for an announcement, the Consell "has once again failed the families who depend on holiday rentals." Habtur described this decision as an "unacceptable affront," especially considering that the September call for applications, they said, "worked perfectly" for hotels and cultural heritage sites. The organization pointed out that "certain types of accommodation have received preferential treatment," while holiday rentals have continued to be "perpetually forgotten." Furthermore, they denounced that "not only are small owners being discriminated against," representing 99 percent of the sector, but that "any predictability in the CBAT's public management has been destroyed."

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