Mallorca restaurants losing clients, tourists tighten their belts
"We are missing the tourists with a medium-high purchasing power."
Humphrey Carter24/06/2024 09:36 Just Stop Oil threat to Mallorca holidays
Just Stop Oil are plotting a summer of disruption at airports in the UK.
Argument over top Mallorca beach restaurant
Deya beach is a magnet for celebrities every summer.
Balearic president says 20 million tourists a year “is not sustainable” limits not being ruled out
Tourism generates 87% of GDP and 40% of employment in the Balearics.
“Mallorca is wonderful, I’ve known it for 55 years, but it needs an adult tourism strategy”
“Mallorca, as I’ve said, is a wonderful island. It’s paradise. All of us lucky enough to live here should be extremely grateful and look after the island, manage it properly. It’s a vicious circle but it has to be brought under control.”
Everybody needs to be responsible in Mallorca
Clubs and pubs should play their part in promoting respect.
Tourist-bashing is back in fashion
The anti-tourism movement appears to have a fresh set of lungs in Spain.
Learn to love tourists again
Mallorca appears, well for the large part, to have got over its visceral anti-tourism stance but now other parts of Spain have got issues.
- Emergency declared on Ryanair flight bound for Palma from Dublin
- British tourists will be “tracked” while on holiday in Mallorca
- Mallorca ambassador Sir Bradley Wiggins has “lost” his Mallorca home
- Mallorca restaurants losing clients, tourists tighten their belts
- Mallorca hotelier - "I wouldn't go to a place where I perceived there to be animosity towards tourists"
Comment
Mallorca mass tourism protests can stop now
On the whole, the foreign media is not interested in the ins and outs of local politicians; they’ll take what they see and run with it and that is that Mallorca does not want tourists.
Humphrey Carter21/06/2024 12:37