08-01-2012, 04:23 PM | #1 |
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Segway rental business in Barcelona
It's strange, but in Barcelona there are only 3 Segway rental companies:
egwaytours.cat barcelonasegwayfun.com barcelonasegwayglides.com It's strange twice, but locations of those companies in BIG sity is very closed from each others - not more than 200 meters. And also looks strange why segwaybcn.com was closed in 2009 (?) May be somebody can explain this? |
08-25-2012, 11:01 AM | #2 |
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Barcelona Segway
I was in Spain last year and met the owner of Malaga Segway tours. From what I understand, Barcelona is a great city to have tours in, and could easily support other Segway tours, however, it is extremely hard to open a business in Spain and Spanish employment laws are tough to abide by. Employees must be given 1 month paid vacation and are actually paid an entire month's salary as a Christmas bonus, plus it is nearly impossible to fire an employee in Spain. Import taxes and VAT are also very high, even for the Euro region. Even with those barriers, I think a couple tour operators could make it, and I have looked at opening one myself (My wife is an EU/US citizen). I think that Barcelona could be in the same class as DC, Chicago and Paris, as the world's greatest Segway tour cities!
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