Regular visitors to Mallorca are worried about the island's future. | Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter
Palma18/09/2024 11:45Updated at 16:41
“I am 69 years old, Irish and living in the UK, We have been going to Majorca since the 1980s, However Majorca as beautiful as it is, is getting in the limelight for an awful lot of wrong reasons.
“People come to the Island to relax and rest but a lot of visitors will now question are we really welcome and wanted, taking into account the anti tourism issues over the last few years.
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Maybe give the Police water cannon?
Blah blah blah same old. It is one thing to have been coming every year for a week or two since the 80's and quite another to have been living here watching the changes as the island submerges in people. They used to call it The Island of Calm and so it was many years ago. Nowadays the Island of Gridlock would be a better description. We cannot continue allowing more real estate companies, more rental car companies, more hotel and apartment companies to move in for the sole intention of making more profit. These people do not have the wellbeing, the best interests of the islands and their residents at heart. They have their wallets. Mallorca has reached a point of too many residents, too many tourists with too many illegal immigrants trying to cash in on them, too many cars, too much of everything. The government does not have the pelotas to really do something meaningful about it . We have probably reached the point of no return and at some point in the near to mid term quoting Private Fraser - We are Doomed.
Typical British overreaction to something that is simply some local groups who have some legitimate concerns who want to get the ear of local government to get some rebalancing of their priorities happening. No more, no less - it is how democracies work. But why does the British media paint the situation to be something it really isn't? Why do the British people continue to believe all the rubbish printed in their media???
You are welcome in Mallorca. The protestors are a small minority of locals who believe that tourists prevent them from their "right" to low cost housing, food, shopping and much else. The fact that many of these protestors would be poorer, directly or indirectly, as a result of a major reduction in tourist numbers hasn't occurred to them. Yet. Come to Mallorca and ignore these idiots.