Simon Calder

People come in, they support jobs, they pay taxes, they help fund cultural amenities and restaurants, everything that wouldn't exist without the tourists.

Yes.

Although, look, if you're going back to Mallorca, there's lots of lovely hotels there.

There's some really quite mediocre hotels as well.

I've stayed in some of them.

But the whole thing is, if you're a tourist from Ireland and you are going to Mallorca and you're staying in a hotel, you are by definition exactly in a facility, a piece of infrastructure, which is intended for you.

as opposed to Airbnbs, which definitely aren't.

So I say over to you, Spain.