The new Tourism Act defends the idea that to be sustainable, our economic system need to take into account not only environment concerns: sustainability also applies to society and economy as a whole.

With this in mind, the law points to correct a situation between one of its most punished collectives. The room service workers in the hospitality sector are the most suffered collective in Hostelry, as they represent the 27% of the accident rate in the whole tourism sector. Additionally, this collective is strongly feminized, with almost no men among them. Most of their injuries are musculoskeletal disorders associated with overexertions. Correcting this situation will represent a measure of social justice for the part of labour, but also for the part of gender equality.
 

In this context, our Labour Health Institute (IBASSAL) made a study in collaboration with a big hostelry company to evaluate the potential benefit for room service workers of the installation of lifting mechanisms in hostelry's beds. In this study, the entities conclude that this technology has the potential to reduce the effort 8'4 times if the bed is individual and 7'3 times if the bed si for couples.

With this knowledge the Balearic Government introduced the obligation to install lifting mechanisms in the 100% of the beds in the sector. This substitution can be distributed along all the transition period (2022-2027). 

The Government is supporting the sector by financing the purchase of these mechanism with EU NextGen funds. 

The measurable target is to achieve the 100% of hospitality beds to have lifting mechanisms by 2027.