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The Mayor's Views - San Juan

Our final interview is with Antoni Mari ‘Carraca,’ Mayor of San Juan

Our final interview is with Antoni Mari ‘Carraca,’ Mayor of San Juan de Labritja in the north of Ibiza. It's the island's most rural and undeveloped area and not surprisingly has a fair number of Agrotourist Hotels nestled away in its beautiful countryside. The family friendly resorts of Cala San Vicente and Puerto San Miguel as well as the picturesque villages of San Lorenzo and San Miguel are all in the borough of San Juan.

'Carraca'

1. What type of tourism currently dominates the district of San Juan and what type of tourist are you trying to attract?


Our borough principally attracts Family Tourism, in the double sense of the traditional tourist offer of sun and beach related with the established hotels in certain busier zones and the more Rural side of the tourist market. Many visitors are now choosing a better quality of service, those being more personalized and often focused on the peace and tranquillity to be found in our agroturismos (rural hotels) and their surroundings.


2. What facilities are on offer to visitors during the off season?


San Juan possesses some lovely beaches of a very high standard for nature lovers and those in search of tranquillity; our picturesque coves and their surrounding waters offer an amplitude of marine beauty and natural sights.

Cala San Vicente

Tourists on walking holidays can find both sign-posted, well trodden and also lesser known routes to follow, through countryside and coast. We also pride ourselves on our fine gastronomy found both at the agroturismos and hotels and in many other restaurant locations scattered throughout our borough.

Finally, we have a wealth of history within the walls of our churches as well as other local monuments that can be visited throughout the low season.


3. What improvements are currently being carried out to the hotels and tourist infrastructure in general in the municipality of San Juan de Labritja?


It has always been one of our main priorities and that of the government to see that our towns and tourist zones are in keeping with a dignified and appropriate infrastructure; always keeping to the forefront the preservation of our landscape and particularly public spaces.

San Juan Church

Over the years, insofar as the Hotel Sector is concerned, we have noted the positive response through our maintaining those high standards. We continue to so this by modernising existing structures and always meeting the official norms and standards, our main aim, in order to offer a continually better quality of service.


4. What impact or consequence will the new legislation on disco opening times have?


The municipality of San Juan doesn’t actually house any of the island’s major night life venues, so we are not directly affected by this legislation as such. Of course, we support the other boroughs and fully appreciate this problematic issue. What needs to be established is some kind of generalization with regards to opening and closing times, for the venues in question. Balafi


5. What are your views on the upcoming tourist season?


With respect to the future, we are focused on constantly improving family tourism, on the standard of our service, and for the care and upkeep of the environment and for the sustainability of all of the above, thereby assuring that we maintain a permanent high standard of tourism, throughout this year and into the future.

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