Since 2016 the ecotax is a direct tax that will be charged to all individualst (even locals) staying in any regulated tourist establishment throughout the Balearic Islands. with amounts ranging from 0.25 euros to 2 euros for each day of stay, depending on the category of the establishment and whether it is high or low season. Children under 16 years old do not have to pay for it.
High season goes from April to October, both included, and the amounts to be paid are as follows:
- 0,5€ per day of stay if staying in hostels and shelters, hostels, pensions, inns, tourist camps or campsites.
- 1€ per day in the case of rural hotels, rural tourism, tourism accommodation of interior, tourist apartments of up to three keys, hotels and apartments of up to three stars.
- 1,5€ per day of stay when this tourist homes for vacation, housing top tourist marketing, apartments three keys object and hotels of four and three-star-superior.
- 2€ per day, will be for tourists on cruise ships, superior four-star and five-star hotels, tourist apartments in four keys and residential tourism business accommodation establishments.
All these amounts are excluded from VAT (10%) and will be reduced by half in each case when he is low season.
It is estimated that the Government will be able to collect between 50 and 80 million euros, which will be allocated for environmental purposes such as:
- Protection, preservation and recovery of the natural environment
- Improvements in the quality and competitiveness of the tourism sector
- Deseasonalisation premium and tourist product creation
- Improvement of sustainable tourism infrastructure
- Historical and cultural heritage