I was reading some of the comments online regarding the visit by the Royal Navy destroyer, HMS Diamond, to Palma. The majority wished the crew well after a long deployment in the Red Sea, but the final comment caught my eye, it stated: “Don’t bother getting off, they don’t want tourists.”
Tourists are welcome, don’t listen to the FEW
To those demonstrating against tourism: Be careful your dream could become a reality...
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tranq tranquerBingo. Spot on. That's really the only solution. And the most natural progression. Simply forcing limits or imposing poorly designed legislation will only make it worse, or never happen.
'ALL tourists are welcome. ' No they are not. The German ultras, the drunks in Illetas attacking waiters, the idiots in Magaluf jumping off balconies are not wanted, not needed and not welcome!
In your piece you are correct to say the problem is not tourism per se but the quantity of tourists. Interesting you chose as a picture one showing three blocks of polluting floating flats in the background. Regarding that old hackneyed phrase - be careful what you wish for. If I had a euro for everytime I have heard that applied to this subject over the years I would be a richer man. Tourism demand is never going to cease on these islands, unless climate change makes them deserts . That said the only way to reduce numbers is to increase prices, reduce cheap accommodation and forcibly move the market upwards. The reason low market cheap tourists don't go to the South of France is because since I was a young man they have promoted an image of its too posh and too expensive for the likes of you. That is the direction we need to be going in. That is why a PR campaign saying all tourists are welcome, both in Britain and in Germany is exactly what we don't want because the people who are going to hear that and take note are precisely the people we no longer need here.What we do need is a study of those coming to live here to find out how many will continue to work, but online.Their work may produce wealth in some overseas country but their personal household income will be spent here. The internet has been here to stay for years now. Islands like Mallorca must ensure they make full use of the population shifts that are already happening.