"It's unbelievable how much Ibiza is being hit by the high prices. It's a robbery"

Laura Sánchez (@laurasanchezibiza), an Ibiza worker, has shared in Tiktok her reflections on what she thinks is happening this summer in Ibiza. "Ibiza is suffering the consequences of being so expensive; it's twice as expensive as last year and there are a lot of people who haven't come at all. The season is lower than last year, as taxi drivers, bars, restaurants say, the hotels are half full, the terraces are not full," he reflects, adding that "it's incredible how much of a blow Ibiza is taking because of the high prices.

This girl, who works on the island, explained her own experience in a new restaurant in the port of Ibiza. "The other day, a new restaurant in Marina Botafoch. I went there for my work, because I have to get to know new places to be able to recommend them or not. Everything very nice, good quality, the service was wrong a couple of times, but they are new. We were two people, two cocktails, one for each of us, no champagne or anything, several small plates and no dessert: 340 euros for two people. You don't even wait until you've had a run-in to make a name for yourselves and raise prices, but first class, take 'palito' because we're in Ibiza and here people have money. It's a robbery", he concludes in Tiktok.

The data

Pending the publication of the official figures for June and July, the Frontur tourist flow survey, which is compiled by the government and distributed in the Balearic Islands by Ibestat, shows that Ibiza and Formentera received 824,545 tourists between January and May, an increase of just 0.45% compared to the same period last year. This means, therefore, that in the first five months of this year Ibiza and Formentera received the same number of tourists as in 2023. It should be noted that the Pitiusas are the only islands of the Balearic archipelago where tourist arrivals have stabilised, as in Mallorca they have grown by 10% and in Menorca by 15.3% in the first five months of the year.