We come not in the same way as earlier against the warm sunshine of Majorca, when the cold becomes too glaring here in the north.

And this has implications for the hotels in the capital city of Palma.

Here, every third hotel had to shut down and switch off in the winter months. And it is historic, writes flysmart24.no.

It is not uncommon that a few hotels close down a vintermåned or two. But it is highly unusual that the scope is so large.

instead of holding your breath and hope that the guests suddenly springing up, hoteliers are instead locked the doors between two and three months.

And the employees? It has been sent home on winter break.

"This situation would have been completely unthinkable only a few years ago," says the president of the hotelorganisation, Javier Vich, the Spanish newspaper Ultima Hora.

He fears that the situation will be exacerbated in the coming years.

"the Situation has never been so bad in January and February," he adds, whereas the decreasing tourism has had much to say.

Also Thomas Cook-the bankruptcy has had an impact, as he also believes there opened many new hotels in the city.

in Fact, speaking hotelpræsidenten about 'almost zero-activity' in tourism at the moment.

Javier Vich predict that the crisis will force hotels to keep closed up to a third of the year - from november to February - if not the trend turns.