Palma town hall has today approved the Sunday opening of any business in the main tourism centre of the city in and around its walls. Experimental for 2012, this measure will mean, for example, that large shops which cannot currently open will be able to do so. Small businesses can already open, and it is a threat to their business which has been an objection to the larger ones opening. In addition to the shops opening, there will also be street activities and reduced fees for parking.
An impetus for this change has been the tourists brought in by cruise ships, but opposition (the Mallorcan socialists) at the town hall point out that the number of cruise tourists who come ashore (assuming they even stay in Palma) is small by comparison with the number of businesses, implying therefore that they will not necessarily result in greatly increased trade.
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