Letter to the editor: We no longer feel welcome on the beautiful island of Majorca.

Zoltan TeglasSorry my language but, .....f them! It's a free world and we.csn go and travel where we want. Finished!

CompoI speak a number of languages and routinely subscribe to various European media, and I can say with absolute confidence that British media by far printed more articles and far more sensationalised and exaggerated than any European media. Not long ago, I posted a fairly long list of British tabloid links on another related thread, which very clearly implied that the anti tourism movement was inherently "anti-British". No, not specifically using those words, but tabloid English is a very implicit language. It's heavily reliant on implicit phrasing and innuendo. "Warning" is a very common term used. "Fury" and "outrage" are also an integral part of the English tabloid language. You can argue whether or not the intent is to imply some sort of anti-British sentiment, but I'd argue that it's simply a presumption that British tourism accounts the overwhelming majority of tourism (just look for yourself - everywhere you go in Magaluf, it's full of Brits), and therefore, this anti-tourist stuff can only be founded in anti-British sentiment. Who else could it be aimed at? Not surprisingly, English tabloids routinely trot out narratives that implicitly "prove" that Brits are the overwhelming winning majority in tourism, easily beating out Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Luxembourg, slightly more than France, and occasionally, more Brits book on a given week than Germans do. And that proves it. But using actual statistical maths, Brits generally only account for about 20% in Spain, a little less in Mallorca. So, ok, Brits scare themselves off? The other 80% are still here though. We already have enough tourists. 20% reduction won't hurt much. But that won't happen either, whether Brits come or not. So it's just a tempest in a teapot.

Someone was rude to me in a cafe in London recently, shall I never return to London?

Morgan WilliamsThe British media do not portray the protests as specifically anti British and of course they do not discuss how it might impact German or French tourists, why would they? The water pistol incident may not be ‘dangerous’ to you but it would have been very scary to families simply put to have a meal in a restaurant. The Kill a Tourist graffiti perhaps even more so. I am no fan of any media outlets but these two incidents (and other protests) are facts and the media are right to report it. In fairness, most of the reporting has been balanced focusing particularly on the housing issues here. There are many alternative holiday destinations for Brits, Germans and everyone else. People will go where they feel welcome. The message from Mallorca is, at best, mixed at the moment. That’s not an exaggeration, it’s a fact.

RedbaronWell, by far, Brits are the most famous for that. Richard, for example, doesn't even attempt to hide it. In fact, he feels "entitled" to live here completely without having to register or pay tax or other costs ... totally under the radar ... as a "benefit" of birthright. It does beg the question of whether his "entitlement" is a "benefits street" thing, another uniquely British phenomenon, which he ironically rails against and accuses everybody else of (e.g., "foreigners", aka "commies").

CompoThere is a small contingent of anti-tourism protestors who have yet to exhibit any violence or other unsavoury behaviours, but the British tabloids press has exaggerated it far beyond anything resembling the reality of it, making it appears "dangerous", and have consistently framed it as specifically aimed at "Brits", which of course has precious little to do with the overall tourism landscape here and the protestors could care less, and as a rather minor part of tourism here and largely limited to the handful of British resorts, Brits are probably amongst the least likely to be affected by any actual form of "danger", if it even exists in the first place (and so far, there's no evidence of any of that). But that's just the effect of British tabloid insularity and the need for reassurance that Britain in is the most important. It's just what Brits are "led to believe", even if there's not a speck of evidence to support it.

Well at least that is 2 down. :-)

Hang on a minute, I thought (according to certain posters on here) that the anti tourism thing was made up by the British press?

Yeah, every time somebody says something not nice, it's rational to just leave and never come back.

Maybe the tourist are not so much at fault, there are so many retired Europeans living here without been registered as they don't want to pay taxes on their income (pension)