Automated news reporting
Very little news this morning, and rather than blogging about road closures and other such riveting stories, it is a lot easier to send readers of this blog to madeira.news, a totally automated website that runs alongside this one. This continually trawls the internet for any news stories relating to the island, takes a snippet, and publishes them immediately they are found.
Click on any snippet and the full story appears, translated into fully comprehensible English.
The madeiraisland.news service captured twenty different stories yesterday (three of them about road closures!). Being fully automated it makes no pretence of being a blog.
I believe CMF are going to bring in a tourist tax of 2€ per day up to a max of 14€ per stay. I haven’t been able to find out when it is going to start. At this stage it looks like it doesn’t apply to AL properties.
Santa Cruz has had a scheme in place for some time now so this shouldn’t be a surprise.
I found this RTP report about the tax. If anyone understands Portuguese can they do a quick translation into English here please?
http://www.rtp.pt/madeira/sociedade/funchal-vai-cobrar-uma-taxa-de-dois-euros-aos-turistas-que-dormem-nos-hotis-do-concelho_34180?fbclid=IwAR0RmvgXm_HfqCfTUCJwSAGM3-viKsnq99wD-aiJtQlqpyKhv-JsUHPuGcs
Tourist tax can be used to fund fire helicopter extra months for Madeira, Its to every one on the island advantage living there or on holiday.