The Mallorca council has turned down the development of a golf course and hotel on Son Real. For those who may not know, Son Real is an area of historical and archaeological interest outside Can Picafort. Within its orbit is the ancient necropolis. And someone wanted to build a golf course and hotel on it.
The Santa Margalida town hall accepts the decision and indeed believes that the tourist potential of Son Real, intact and environmentally correct and preserved, can be promoted. Which does rather beg the question - has it not been before? I can’t help but feel that maybe the town hall might quite have liked the plan to be approved, though it’s hard to see, especially with the strength of the environmental lobby here, that it could ever have been brought to fruition. Which also begs a question - did anyone seriously ever think that it would be approved?
Golf in Mallorca: it seems like a natural symbiosis. A bit of untaxing sport, practise your swing and chip, an agreeable climate, suntan as you play. More importantly, golf promises high-net-worth patronage. It is something of a Holy Grail for winter, all-year, minted tourism. Nice work if you can get it. Quite nice revenue stream as well, if you can get it. For all that a bunch of old stones might get the odd enthusiastic tourist (sorry, that is a philistine view but realistic), those stones don’t generate strong cash flows. A golf course and hotel on the other hand ... .
This dodgy weather of the past few days has indeed been dodgy - it’s official. Yesterday, for example, the temperature was down by 7 degrees compared to the norm, and Palma registered the lowest night temperature for September since 1964.
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