The President of Mallorca is not giving up hope that tourism could still be salvaged this summer.
The Spanish island, which is hugely popular with Irish tourists, relies heavily on money from visitors each summer.
However, with the current pandemic they are already losing millions and anticipate a disastrous collapse if the restrictions are prolonged.
Mallorca chiefs are now hoping that tourists can still visit spots like Magaluf this summer.
Island President Catalina Cladera said: "We are not ending this year's tourist season. Whatever we can safely reactivate, we will.
“As soon as we can, we must move to the contingency phase and live with the pandemic, always in a safe way, because people's health is essential, as well as saving the productive fabric and jobs.
"We will have to adapt the way we travel and we must prepare our destination in this new environment, making it more secure, promoting innovation and technology, and adapting to new protection measures in hotels, restaurants, shops, transport and way of traveling.
"We are now fighting to overcome the global health crisis but our natural environment and the potential of the tourism sector remain there."
The Canary Island's on the opposite side of Spain are also hoping to welcome tourists this year.
Canary Islands’ president Angel Victor Torres told local press: “The Canary Islands were the first to have coronavirus in Spain and now we want to be the first out of confinement.”
On Tuesday he said the reactivation of international tourism was the third phase of a recovery plan based around Canary Islands’ residents first and mainland Spaniards second.
Insisting the road back to recovery had to be graduated and “international tourism” would be phase three, he told Spanish daily El Mundo: “That way, in October, November or December, which are good months in the Canary Islands, we can begin to receive tourists from other countries.”
