New anti-drunken tourism protest for Sunday in Mallorca
Demonstration to target Playa de Palma
Beaches have been the target before. | Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter
Palma05/08/2024 15:24Updated at 19:50
The movement ‘Mallorca Platja Tour’, one of a few behind the anti-mass tourism demonstrations, has confirmed a new protest as part of the ‘Occupy our beaches’ movement for this Sunday, August 11, from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm at Balneario 6 in Playa de Palma which is the most popular resort in Mallorca for the Germans.
Also in News
- Spain at boiling point over eggs!
- Now there's a proposal for a fifteen-year residency requirement to buy a home in the Balearics
- A Good Friday. Britain's biggest cruise ship heads for Palma for Easter
- Ryanair launches subscription that waives fees for reserved seats and insurance
- Super luxury British hotels set to open in Mallorca this summer
2 comments
To be able to write a comment, you have to be registered and logged in
Between July and September every important tourist resort is moaning about tourism overcrowding. The island of Capri is the latest in the headlines. Gawping day trippers arrive on the morning ferry and stay until the last boat leaves at 6pm. They walk around aimlessly entering high-end shops where they can't afford to buy anything. They can't go to the restaurants because of the high prices so they leave the island clutching a 5 Euro fridge magnet, famished with sore feet. The locals despise these tourists and want them culled. Familiar scenario? As I've said before on these pages, you're either in the tourism business or you're not. It doesn't come in half measures. If you're in you have to suck up all the downsides and takes what you can from the upside. For locals who don't work in the hotels and restaurants the upside is a free pantomime of tattooed overweight bodies shaking their heads at the prices displayed in shop windows. That's cheap entertainment at least, isn't it?
And of course all written there in catalan. Should be in german. You know, Gunther habla no catalan