Starting at 6.30pm, the convoy passed along the Avenidas and the Paseo Marítimo, the protest having been called by an association headed by Francisco Javier Fuster, who said that "things are getting worse; there are more and more restrictions".
He warned that there will be ever more demand for sites to park this summer, as a "record" is anticipated in terms of sales and rental of motorhomes, caravans and camper vans. On numerous occasions there have been calls for public spaces to be made available and for private rustic land to be adapted in order to create camping areas. But the authorities "make it difficult for us to be on the roads". "They don't grant licences so that everything can be done legally."
Fuster stressed that there is only one green point on the island to properly deposit dirty water generated by motorhomes. "If there were more, there would be no antisocial people, which is what we are sometimes accused of being."
With the elections coming up, the association hopes there may be political parties who take up their cause, emphasising the difference between the Balearics and other regions of Spain, "where it has been shown that motorhome tourism is all-year tourism, with an impact of millions of euros and which gives work to many people".
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Stan The ManI’ve often wondered the same. Alternative lifestyles come to mind
No I still do not understand the cost of these expensive vehicles. Many thousands of pounds to buy. Then the operating costs. Finding electric supplies. Chemical Toilets no space. Easily attacked and broken into. Causes of road traffic delays. How many Holidays could I have in a 4 Star Hotel for their up to £50,000 cost.?
So tourists with camper vans have decided spontaneously to coordinate a protest about lack of trailer parks. Hummm
Certainly cheap, serviced and well maintained sites have to be preferable to vanlifers overnighting outside residential homes, in suburban car parks, or at local beautyspots.