The summer in Spain ended on September 22 and with the closure of the last club in Ibiza. With the month of October and the time change approaching at the end of the month, it’s the end of the season in one of the most visited cities in our country during the summer months. Unfortunately, a nightclub that did not survive the coronavirus crisis and was completely dismantled in recent months has been closed. Privilegewhich was once the largest village hall in the world. Next year it will open its doors in this location UNVRS.
Privilege It closed its doors last year 2019, after the nightclub could not survive the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. The new opening was planned for opening of 2022 but in its time Jose Maria Echanizwho was co-owner of the venue, highlighted “government mismanagement” and “complicated economic situations” as the main reason for not opening the club, since it was impossible to assume the losses caused by the health crisis.
Later, and taking into account the deterioration of the installations, the Matutes Group of Companies She takes full ownership of the place and in November 2023 work begins on the site which, as indicated, aims to redevelop the space with a view to its later opening. Many even thought that in the summer of 2024 the doors of the nightclub would be reopened, but a picture is worth a thousand words and by spring only the skeleton remained.
A venue with a capacity of 10,000 people that even entered the Guinness Book of Records will forever go down in history. During more than 50 years of history, Privilege It was the party epicenter of Ibiza, attracting the scene’s top producers to parties such as Supermartxé, Brutal or Manumission. What was previously the largest discotheque in the world will, from next summer, be a new discotheque concept announced with great fanfare by Will Smith.
The new Privilege in Ibiza
Last summer a marketing campaign with a UFO as the protagonist went viral and far from being an unidentified flying object, this appearance was due to the presentation of the new Privilege in Ibiza. In this video, which has been viewed millions of times, some people claimed to have seen a flying saucer from the viewpoint of Es Vedrá. The person responsible for solving the mystery was Will Smithwhich, on the basis of what was Privilege, announced the new opening.
Everything therefore indicates that from 2025, it will open its doors in this location. UNVRSthe one who will be “the first hyperclub in the world”as confirmed in a statement by those responsible for this project in which they are involved Yann Pissenemowner, founder and CEO of The Night League and co-director with Grupo Empresas Matutes de Ushuaïa Ibiza.
Tourism in decline in Ibiza
The new disco UNVRSwho will be “the first hyperclub in the world”will aim to boost tourism in Ibiza during a summer without much fanfare in terms of tourist visits. Only in July, Ibiza and Formentera They welcomed 665,723 tourists, including 510,358 foreigners and the rest, 155,365, of Spanish nationality. This total number of visitors represents a decrease of 7.22% compared to the same period of the previous year. In August, the figures improved and these two islands ended the month with 676,524 tourists, 11,000 more than the previous month. This data represents an increase of 2.6% compared to the same period of the previous year.
“Now everyone goes to the beach clubs, they hire a DJ who used to be in a nightclub and they have the whole party there, but there are beaches all over the Mediterranean, all over the world. “Ibiza is no longer what it used to be,” the former co-owner of Privilege clearly stated in an interview with. The Ibiza and Formentera newspaper. This next summer the new UNVRS nightclub will try to push the tourism wagon in Ibiza so that the island becomes the benchmark for the second most visited country in the world, which will end the year according to the National Institute of Statistics among more than 95 million tourists.
