Mallorca tourism protesters plan to "double the effort"

Tourism criticism needs to be addressed from "different angles"

Meeting of Menys Turisme, Més Vida on Saturday

At Saturday's gathering. | Francesca Marí

Andrew EdeManacor16/02/2025 09:37

On Saturday, members of the Menys Turisme, Més Vida platform met at the Escola Rural del Puig d'Alanar in Manacor. An educational centre in the countryside not far from Calas de Mallorca was the location for Less Tourism, More Life to discuss protest actions for the coming months. The platform was central to demonstrations last year, and some fifty or so people gathered in Manacor to plan for 2025 under a general theme of 'regroup, double the effort'.

The day started with a discussion about housing. While the protests in 2024 were styled as being anti-tourism, it was wrong to characterise them as having been against tourism per se. They had to do with the issues that have arisen because of overtourism, housing being one of them. The first large protest last year, which was in May, was as much about housing as it was tourism.

For 2025, housing will be one of the three key themes of the actions being planned. The others will be job insecurity and the general notion of 'limits' in the Balearic political agenda, be these, for example, environmental or to do with transport.

Margalida Ramis of the environmentalists GOB explained that these themes are central to "strengthening the narrative we want to generate". Local groups linked to the Menys Turisme, Més Vida movement will, she said, be reactivated before the start of the peak tourism season. Jaume Pujol observed that after "the great mobilisation in July", the activity of local groups declined. It is therefore time to prepare new actions for the coming season.

He added: "Beyond organising ourselves and having clear objectives regarding the actions we must take, we must also have a clear political discourse to address tourism criticism from different angles."

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Pepe | 3 days ago

It would be a Grave Mistake to underestimate the real intention´s of this Group although relatively small in size it´s roots are based in Communist philosophical foundation´s and the Media loves them as it make´s for interesting reading there manifesto or list of demand´s is like trying to write a book with Jello and you can see that from the comment´s they have put out from time to time , there are some problem´s with Tourism but there are a lot of other problem´s as well there desire to create Chaos and lack of Law and the respect for Law is very disturbing and should not be taken lightly .

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tranq tranquer | 3 days ago

The Escolar Rural we would call the village school. They are scattered around the island in small villages and hamlets. Most if not all closed years ago and have turned into local community centers where you can pay a small fee to have your wedding reception, first communion, fiesta etc etc as well as they host local council needs. They were built, mainly in the fifties I believe, by Franco as a means of educating the rural poor who if they did not live close to a town had no means of education for their kids. An example of something the Franco regime got right.

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