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Old 08-01-2012, 04:23 PM   #1
Ontario
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Default 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?
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Old 08-25-2012, 11:01 AM   #2
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Default 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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