Banning private jets to restricting property sales to non-residents are the main demands of the protesters against mass tourism. At the same time, tourist inflation is boosting Mallorca’s economy. The outrage has led residents to write on a wall in Mallorca “KILL A TOURIST”.
The spread of anti-tourism vandalism graffiti has been observed in different parts of the municipality of Mallorca. The government along with the Manacor mayor’s office decided to “condemn the graffiti” and “work together to clean them up immediately, despite the fact that they are in private spaces,” the PP said in a press release.
The PP spokeswoman, Maria Antònia Sansó, stressed that “this graffiti do not represent, in any case, the majority feeling of the residents of Manacor”. The councillor insisted that tourists are and will be welcome in the Mallorcan town. According to Sansó, the PP understands the growing social unrest in relation to tourist overcrowding, but denounces this behaviour as “totally unjustified”.
With just four weeks of peak season left, the anti-tourism movement is not helping and certain sectors of the tourist industry are finally admitting that the season has not panned out quite as forecast back in the spring.
And in Menorca, a protest was organised by the environmental group GOB against the crowding of tourists on Saturday in Cala en Turqueta, which was considered by the coordinator of Vox in Menorca, Santiago Barber, as indecent and offensive because it “obstructed free access to a public space”.
From early Saturday morning, a group of 250 people coordinated to fill the public parking areas of the beach and the bus covering the route from Ciutadella to the beach for six hours, which in practice prevented tourists from reaching the beach. At the same time, the bodies of the activists formed a message “SOS Menorca”. Santiago Barber said “You are the worst of Minorca”,in one of the reaction messages on his XMinorca account.
