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This is how your clients' tourism tax is spent in the Balearics

Destinations
Xenia Taliotis
10 January 2025

Our writer visits Ibiza and Formentera in the off season to learn about vital projects funded by the tax including the conservation of native wall lizards and the preservation of a precious marine ecosystem 

Formentera

Playa de Migjorn is a crown jewel for Formentera © Manfred & Balearic Ministry for Economic Model, Tourism and Labour

Who would have thought that an olive tree, a symbol of peace, could bring such trouble? And yet, for the native wall lizards of Ibiza, the tree has proved an implacable foe – a Trojan horse that has brought devastation to its species.