Tourists on their way to Mallorca, Ibiza and Menorca, could see their vacations being disrupted by waves of strikes this summer.
Hotel workers across the Balearic Islands are ready to lower tools in payment and circumstances during June and July – saying that they are eager to cause as much revolution for tourists to have the maximum impact.
The decision to strike – which is likely to affect thousands of holidaymakers – comes after the Workers’ Union, Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT), said they were dissatisfied with progress during continued talks.
A summer of dissatisfaction seems likely to Spain With more protests against tourism – which has already taken place in cities across the continent as well as on the Canary Islands – in the pipeline.
The Balearics have already experienced a similar strike that took place on May 1, and travelers with vacations already booked will hope that an eleventh hour agreement will be concluded to prevent the mass runoff.
Currently, a strike is planned for June 6 – with a rally outside the Mallorcan Hotel Federation planned – with further actions likely to follow a few days on alternative weeks in July.
A UGT official said: ‘If we do not see the possibility of an agreement in principle, we will call a strike that lasts a few days. ‘
Properties affected include hotels in some of Mallorca’s most popular resorts, Platja de Palma and Palma Nova and Magaluf – with hotel workers, including bar and restaurant staff, which will stay at home.
British tourists who are heading to Mallorca this summer could see their holidays being disrupted by hotel workers by strikes – hoping that an eleventh hour resolution seems unlikely, says the Workers Union, Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT (UGT (UGT (UGT
Summer of dissatisfaction? Tourists on the way to the Balearic Isles in June and July can be struck by protests by hotel workers fighting for better payment and circumstances (residents of Canarian in Madrid Protes against Mass Tourism in the Canary Islands)
Those at the table for the UGT, the largest trade union for the hospitality sector, are campaigning for better payment and conditions, via a renegotiation of the collective agreement of the Balearic hotel industry.
Ugt services general secretary José García Relrucio said although he hopes for a resolution at the last minute, nothing has been agreed up to-plans to formalize the strikes yesterday.
The UGT is looking for a 19 percent increase in the next three years – but employers refuse to move more than 8.5 percent.
Monday Spain’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs ordered Airbnb To remove more than 65,000 vacation homes from its platform as part of an illegal lists, said they violated “various housing for tourists’ housing.
The country is currently facing a housing crisis, as construction has failed to keep up with demand – and fewer tourists are seen as one way to solve it.
The news about the latest strikes is probably a bitter pill for British tourists to swallow; The country’s love affair with Spain spans decades and according to Yougov data published earlier this year, this is the place where we are most likely to be Go to a summer vacation in 2025.
Data collected in the last three months of 2024 showed that Spain remains Britain’s favorite destination, with 15.9%of British saying it is the country they are likely to visit next, with the United Kingdom (14.3%) and Italy (9.3%), in second and third place.
Spain has seen dozens of protests against tourism over the past few months, with strikes by hotel workers, including bar and restaurant staff, on Mallorca, Ibiza and Menorca now in the pipeline (Photo: Anti-Tourism Protesters in Tenerife earlier this month)
The news follows major protests against tourism in the Canary Islands this weekend. Activists appeal to the number of holidaymakers to prevent overpopulation and depletion of resources
Thousands of protesters against tourism took the streets of the Canary Islands this week as part of an ongoing setback against holidaymakers in Spain – the country ordered Airbnb to remove more than 65,000 holiday homes from its platform as part of a suppression of illegal lists
An interactive map published by Spanish newspaper El Diario this week shows exactly which towns and cities in Britain’s favorite holiday destination have most of the holiday, based on data published by the Spanish National Statistics Institute (Ine) (in the photo: Malaga on the map)
An interactive map Published this week in the Spanish newspaper El Diario showed exactly which resorts and cities in the country have the largest number of tourists.
The map, which used data from the Spanish National Statistics Institute (Ine), reveals where the 397,000 holiday rentals listed in August last year on Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo.
Surprisingly, Spanish cities have most of the tourist stories compared to beach resorts, with 85% of the apartments in Malaga’s historic central district associated with holiday rentals.
Meanwhile, one in ten apartments in the popular tourist districts of Plaça Catalunya and Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona are rented to tourists according to the data, while more than 20 percent of the apartments in Madrid are offered in the Spanish capital.
This week, holidaymakers allegedly in hotels as protesters against tourism stormed in the streets of the Canary Islandswhile the residents of the residents disrupted Sunshine Bliss for tourists.
Thousands of fellow residents kicked off protests about the archipelago, including in Tenderife, Fuerteventura, Ela Hierro, La Palma, La Gomera and Lanzarote.
Dozens of national police officers were seen on patrol, while protesters were heard by enormous shells to make a loud horny sound while striking drums.
They marched with the slogan ‘Canarias tens un limite’ (the canaries have a limit while slogan is sung, such as: ‘El Dinero del Turismo, Dond Está?’, Does the money from tourism, where is it? “
Demonstrations have also taken the streets in Barcelona, Valencia as well as Madrid as tensions against tourists have has continued to rise in the past year.
And the news that 65,000 Airbnb lists are set to be banned – Because officials say that they do not include a license number, and some do not specify whether they are run by an individual or corporation, it is likely to further flare the tension.
