Discussions in some of Mallorca’s most popular summer vacation resorts have dropped by as much as 20 percent, says hotelers on the Balearic island, suggesting that holidaymakers vote with their feet to anti-tourism marches.
The Hoteliers Association that represents the resorts of Alcudia and Picafort can say that their most important markets have delayed in recent months.
The news comes to major protests against anti-tourism across the continent Spain And its islands this year – with another major protest march in the pipeline for Mallorca’s capital next weekend.
Last week, thousands of challenging protesters against tourism promised to stop the streets of Palma on June 15, with Representatives of about 60 groups say they intend to march.
The Alcudia and Can Picafort Hoteliers Association said this week that discussions about the most important markets have dropped, including GermanIts number one market, with a slump of 15% to 20% on last year.
Pablo Riera-Mararsa, president of the Hotelier’s Association, said: “We see how the German market, traditionally our number 1 market, is the one that has delayed the most.”
But the Mortelca Daily Bulletin Reports That the group is optimistic that late discussions would still see that figures are increasing and saying tourists have their bets on the last gas transactions on the bargain.
He explained: “We detect that discussions are becoming popular again this season, with tourists waiting for special offers and promotions before making their purchase decisions.”
Setback? Hoteliers in the resorts of Alcudia and Can Picafort on Mallorca reported a slump of up to 20 percent in hotel bookings year-on-year. Spain saw anti-tourism marches across the continent and popular islands this year
And another protest march is in the pipeline, with the capital of Mallorca, Palma, the location for another major protest march on June 15, with 60 organizations going on March (in the photo: protests on Mallorca on May 25)
The Hoteliers Association maintained that the numbers simply return to normal levels to a ‘Champagne Effect’, when people started traveling again to the end of the pandemic.
The demonstration in Palma on June 15 is led by the campaign group ‘Menys Turism, Mes Vida’ (less tourism, more life), which claims that the everyday life of the residents became ‘unbearable’ thanks to foreign holidaymakers.
They both accused the government of the Balearic Islands of ignoring the pleas for drastic changes in their current tourism model.
The platform asks the residents of the island to take to the streets to claim a change in the economic model and what they describe as ‘touristification’.
It will be the third big protest on its kind, but the activists say they are not coming anywhere, despite calls to combat tourists.
The demonstration in Palma is held simultaneously with similar marches in Ibiza, Barcelona, Donosti and other major Spanish cities.
Jaume Pujol, spokesperson for Menys Turism, Més Vida, said: “We stand before the right to a dignified life and to an end to touristification”.
The group also criticized the local government today and accused them of promoting policies that exacerbated the mass tourism crisis.
The demonstration on June 15 is led by the campaign group ‘Menys Turism, Mes Vida’ (less tourism, more life), which claims that the everyday life of the residents has become ‘unbearable’ thanks to foreign holidaymakers. In the photo: Campers who announced the protest
‘Mallorca is not for sale’ a protest banner said by a girl in a march held in April against house prizes and the impact of tourism on the residents of the Mallorca
They also warned that ‘unbearable situations’ are already being repeated on the island at the beginning of the tourist season, including road closures due to tourist meetings and generations; saturation of public spaces and markets.
Menys Turism, Mes Vida also argued that their island is “not for sale” and that “it is urgent to place limits” on a tourism model that they are increasingly devastating.
It comes a month after tens of thousands of angry Spaniards taken to the streets across the country To claim a solution to the cost of living crisis, they say they have been exacerbated by tourism.
The protests on April 5 took place over large Spanish towns and cities, including Madrid, Barcelona, Malaga and Palma.
According to organizers, 30,000 people took the streets of Malaga – a coastal town in southern Spain – to the streets of Malaga, while demanding solutions to the housing crisis, with banners reading: ‘Homes for the people of Málaga. Tourists, affordable rental hotels. ‘
But police reported that about 5,000 protesters participated in the Malaga march.
Residents were photographed with the slogan banners: ‘Homes for the people of Málaga. Tourists hotels’.
Some also hung posters of their balconies and windows with messages saying, ‘Housing is a right, not a business’.
The demonstration will be led by the campaign group ‘Menys Turism, Mes Vida’ (less tourism, more life), which claims that the everyday life of the residents has become ‘unbearable’ thanks to foreign holidaymakers. In the photo: Campers who announced the protest today
Meanwhile, about 15,000 people gathered in the capital of Atocha in Madrid and marched to Plaza de Espana and shouted slogans like: ‘landlords are thieves’ and ‘Madrid will be the grave of rent’.
Evil tenants have pointed to cases of international hedge funds that buy properties, often with the aim of renting it to foreign tourists.
The question so politically charged that the city government of Barcelona Last year promised to phase out all its 10,000 permits for short -term rentals, and many of them advertised on platforms like Airbnb by 2028.
Marchers in Madrid sang “Get Airbnb from our neighborhoods’ last month and held signs on short -term rentals.
“No longer leaving our homes, our homes or even our cities every five or seven years,” said Madrid Tenants’ Union spokesman Valeria Racu in a statement at the beginning of the demonstration.
“We call on the half -million households whose contracts expire in 2025 to stay at home and resist,” she added.
Last month, British holidaymakers left as protesters in hotels stormed in the streets of the Canary Islands.
Residents who fight against too much tourism Demonstrations on Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Ela Iron, La Palma, La Gomera and Lanzarote.
