Migliaia di persone a marciare per le strade di Maiorca nella protesta di apertura questo fine settimana
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/mallorca-tourism-protest-where-why-b2769426.html
di tylerthe-theatre
Migliaia di persone a marciare per le strade di Maiorca nella protesta di apertura questo fine settimana
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/mallorca-tourism-protest-where-why-b2769426.html
di tylerthe-theatre
21 commenti
And what happens if they get their way and tourists are gone? Many areas heavily rely on tourism and without them, the local economies will simply collapse.
As someone from a place that suffers from mass tourism and declining quality of life, I support this fully and I hope that my region follows in their footsteps.
Everyone wants to go to the same places at the same time.
That’s good, stay in the streets so that tourists have the beaches for themselves.
What can you do about over tourism if you don’t want to ban all tourism?
That’s ridiculous because 90% of the island economy is tourism loooool
As tourists will only come if there somewhere to actually stay, would a cap on rooms for rent (hotel/self catering etc.) achieve a better balance? This could even change according to season etc.
It was said that Bukele’s fight against drug trafficking would cause El Salvador’s economy to collapse by significantly reducing people’s incomes. Not only did it not decline, but the economy actually grew. If we gradually stop relying on tourism, investor money will flow towards a healthier economic model. Another major harm of tourism is that it makes being a waiter the only job opportunity, serving the “gods from the North” who come to offer their “humanitarian aid,” as they call it.
Crazy how every time this comes up redditors refuse to try to understand people’s very real grievances and turn everything into a strawman “so you want all tourism to end???”.
You all realise the Balearic Islands, Costa Del Sol, the Algarve, etc. have all been major tourist destinations for over half a century, right? People’s problem isn’t *tourism*, it’s the exaggerated, prejudicial, overtly capitalistic turn it has taken in the past decade, that has left local people without purchasing power, access to housing, and proper jobs, because everything is being taken over by rich foreigners catering to other rich foreigners and the governments have done jackshit to help the locals.
Clearly overtourism is bad for the residents of a place like Mallorca, but there are no proposals in this article. Are they proposing banning short term rentals and cruise ships? This would be a very effective solution, but I suspect the Mallorcans who live in Madrid making bank from renting out their grandparents old flats will not be too happy about it. Without concrete plans protests mean nothing (and just to be clear this is not me arguing against overtourism protests in general – I’m just saying we need to be better organised).
Without tourism, Mallorcans would have to emigrate
The same Mallorca where tourism makes up 40-70% of the GDP, and generates up to 30-45% of jobs?
I think they need to have a look at AirBnB and similar businesses.
There was already an amount of hotel rooms that people had agreed was reasonable. Now there’s a technologically invented way to create new hotel capacity that skirts around the previous socially agreed limits, and they should have a think about it.
Just stop going to Spain simple
Fuck organised cheap tourism
This makes me very excited to fly there next week 🥲
People from countries not suffering mass tourism that go to places that suffer from mass tourism telling locals that they should be grateful and refusing to use one bit of logic to understand the very real problems. Every time.
Where tf is that hole? And want to go there? :)) lool
You have to begin with cheap flights. But i think the sunstarved Northern provinces that rule the EU would not take that lightly
The only destination will be the US and by then, new leaders will be taking in anyone who wants to come.
I guess their income is not tourism related!