Posted on 07/26/2013 8:43:52 AM PDT by SJackson
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Spanish Island Bans Drinking to Replace Europeans with Muslim Tourists
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On July 26, 2013 @ 10:12 am In The Point | No Comments
The message here is goodbye British louts, hello Saudi Islamists. I imagine the mandatory bathing suit in Majorca will soon be a Burka.
The Spanish island of Majorca has implemented a ban on drinking alcohol in public and plans to replace its budget hotels with upmarket luxury resorts in a bid to discourage binge-drinking European holidaymakers and replace them with high spending, wealthy tourists from Dubai.
Majorca’s economy is dependent on the influx of tourists and nearly two million British holidaymakers and 3.4 million German tourists visited the island last year.
Despite this, Alvaro Gijón, deputy mayor of the island’s capital Palma de Majorca, told German tabloid newspaper Bild he wants to eradicate the island’s reputation as a budget, binge-drinking destination and attract more affluent visitors.
“We want people who spend a lot of money, such as more tourists from China and Dubai. St Tropez, Miami and Las Vegas are the places we’re orienting ourselves towards,” Gijón added.
Because the one thing Miami and Las Vegas are known for is being alcohol free. So Majorca is doing the smart thing by alienating its European customers in the hopes of landing those Muslim and Chinese dreamboats. The Chinese are of course also well known haters of drink.
In a bid to entice wealthy Arab visitors, the island’s government has launched a five year development plan to close down many of its budget hotels and replace them with upmarket luxury accommodation.
Good luck with that. It’s not like they have any place to travel to at home that’s gold-spangled, sunny and has no alcohol. Why they’ll have no choice but to go to Majorca… because it has no alcohol.
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Ban alcohol, that's the way to model your resort after Miami and Vegas.
Hawaii...jihad edition.
Muslims love to drink on vacation in the land of the infidel
Won’t work.
Muslims go on Euro trips just so they can drink alcohol!..............
Could the alternate explanation be “just too much Spring Break stupidness”?
Guess that explains why every Saudi businessman who gets off the plane at JFK makes a beeline for the Strip Bars.
Miami and Las Vegas are alcohol free? In what world?
While I have not been on vacation in Miami in a very long time, I do see people outside with drinks in Vegas going from casino to casino. There is no shortage of booze whatsoever on casino floors (comp drinks are bountiful).
The Rich Islamists will be changing the name from Majorca to Allah’s Paradise soon enough. They will change the name of the whole county in due time.
THERE’S a blueprint for prosperity and stability!
They sound like a bunch of jorcas.
Having lived in Saudi, I can assure you that the pious, Islamic Saudi morphs into drinking, makeup wearing, and Koran defying westerners, once the the wheels are in the belly and clearing Saudi airspace..
The free market. Attract those who spend
Majorca is attempting to go back upscale.
Public drinking in Majorca used to mean a couple or a small party having a bottle of wine to share at their beach picnic.
Now it means a bunch of already-drunk yobs carousing in the streets, getting into fights with other idiots, having public sex, and leaving discarded cans and bottles and stomach contents on the beach.
Families don't want to go there anymore, wealthy people don't want to go there anymore, it has lost its cachet as a cultured destination.
What did the locals get in return? A bunch of obnoxious, mouthy idiots who spend almost nothing - they sleep nine to a hotel room and buy the cheapest swill available when they run out of the duty-free hooch they bought on the plane.
This is not catering to Muslim tourists - it is catering to any tourist who is willing to spend money for a well-rounded vacation.
This reads like parody, because the reality, numbers and logic do not add up.
Inviting a return of the Moors?
Yes I quite agree with you, I mean what's the point of being treated like a sheep, I mean I'm fed up with going abroad and being treated like a sheep, what's the point of being carted around in buses surrounded by sweaty mindless oafs from Kettering and Boventry in their cloth caps and their cardigans and their transistor radios and their 'Sunday Mirrors', complaining about the tea, 'Oh they don't make it properly here do they not like at home' stopping at Majorcan bodegas, selling fish and chips and Watney's Red Barrel and calamares and two veg and sitting in cotton sun frocks squirting Timothy White's suncream all over their puffy raw swollen purulent flesh cos they 'overdid it on the first day'!.....And being herded into endless Hotel Miramars and Bellvueses and Bontinentals with their international luxury modern roomettes and their Watney's Red Barrel and their swimming pools full of fat German businessmen pretending they're acrobats and forming pyramids and frightening the children and barging in to the queues and if you're not at your table spot on seven you miss your bowl of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup, the first item on the menu of International Cuisine, and every Thursday night there's a bloody cabaret in the bar featuring some tiny emaciated dago with nine-inch hips and some big fat bloated tart with her hair brylcreemed down and a big arse presenting Flamenco for Foreigners........And then some adenoidal typists from Birmingham with diarrhoea and flabby white legs and hairy bandy-legged wop waiters called Manuel, and then, once a week there's an excursion to the local Roman ruins where you can buy cherryade and melted ice cream and bleedin' Watney's Red Barrel, and one night they take you to a local restaurant with local colour and colouring and they show you there and you sit next to a party of people from Rhyl who keeps singing 'Torremolinos, Torremolinos' and complaining about the food - 'Oh! It's so greasy isn't it?' and then you get cornered by some drunken greengrocer from Luton with an Instamatic and Dr Scholl sandals and last Tuesday's 'Daily Express' and he drones on and on and on about how Mr. Smith should be running this country and how many languages Enoch Powell can speak and then he throws up all over the Cuba Libres......And sending tinted postcards of places they don't know they haven't even visited, 'to all at number 22, weather wonderful, our room is marked with an "X". Wish you were here.'......'Food very greasy but we have managed to find this marvellous little place hidden away in the back streets.'....Where you can even get Watney's Red Barrel and cheese and onion...'...crisps and the accordionist plays "Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner"' and spending four days on the tarmac at Luton airport on a five-day package tour with nothing to eat but dried Watney's sandwhiches.... ......and there's nowhere to sleep and the kids are vomitting and throwing up on the plastic flowers and they keep telling you it'll only be another hour although your plane is still in Iceland waiting to take some Swedes to Yugoslavia before it can pick you up on the tarmac at 3 a.m. in the bloody morning and you sit on the tarmac till six because of 'unforeseen difficulties'. i.e. the permanent strike of Air Traffic Control in Paris, and nobody can go to the lavatory until you take off at eight, and when you get to Malaga airport everybody's swallowing Enterovio form tablets and queuing for the toilets and when you finally get to the hotel, there's no water in the taps, there's no water in the pool, there's no water in the bog and there's a bleeding lizard in the bidet, and half the rooms are double-booked and you can't sleep anyway...
If you and your buddies walk down a residential street in a nice area of Miami, shouting and cursing while you pass around an open bottle of vodka at four in the morning, the MPD will be more than happy to lock you up until your hangover kicks in.
In Miami, you drink at a restaurant or at a nightclub, not in a park or on someone's doorstep.
That is what Majorca is proposing - not a ban on alcohol.
Tell me about it....when I was in the seafood importing biz, we did a lot with Saudi Fisheries (this is close to 20 years ago), and their head guy - who held ministerial rank in the kingdom - would get roaringly drunk whenever he got off the reservation.
Another goal of his, during international travels, was to dip his Weiner into the local stock.
Apparently the 9/11 bombers had a great time at the nudie bar just days before.
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