“Ci mancano gli inglesi: spendono soldi”: come la guerra di Mallorca contro i turisti britannici è fallito
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/spain/majorca/war-on-britons-backfired/
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“Ci mancano gli inglesi: spendono soldi”: come la guerra di Mallorca contro i turisti britannici è fallito
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/spain/majorca/war-on-britons-backfired/
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No way this is real🤣
I wonder is there is a Spanish newspaper that has a perspective for comparison. Maybe a Megaluf native could put something through Google Translate for the “Anglos.”
Okey to put this to bed :
The people who miss the brits and the people who protest tourism are not the same people.
The people who miss the brits are the store owners, AirBnB landlords and hotels
The people who protest tourism are everyone who get the bad consequences of tourism without seeing a dime.
>Telegraph
This conflict always felt so two-faced to me.
There were the locals with genuine concern about the citizens being able to afford apartments, which is a real issue, and then there were the masses riled on by social media (and no doubt Russian bots) trying to sow disarray in the west.
The presence of two groups could not have been clearer. One was going “um, guys, maybe we shouldn’t let a few people own all apartments,” while the other was going “assault tourists!”
Sounds like the Telegraph talking Balearics again.
The torygraph again 😉 who knew
…. says the telegraph
Yeah no shit businesses want more money regardless of the social and material costs for everyone else, who knew?
To be honest, as a German, I really understand the locals who no longer want mass tourism in Mallorca. It is, of course, a logical consequence that bars such as the one mentioned in the article are not benefiting from the current development – you cannot reduce mass tourism and at the same time continue to run the very businesses that attracted mass tourism. Perhaps different business models and a different focus on new target groups are needed here in general – you just have to decide which tourists you want to attract and which you don’t.
From local Balearic News: (translated by google) I’m going to say that the Telegraph is spouting shit again.
>The data published today by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) and the Balearic Islands Statistics Institute (IBESTAT) confirm several things: general growth in foreign tourism, a decline in Spanish tourism, and a flight from German tourists during the summer months. Prices are a decisive factor in explaining these trends. In fact, tourism spending continues to grow faster than arrivals. In July, the sector generated €4.228 billion, which, combined with previous months, amounts to €12.971 billion, €566 million more than last year. Tourism spending is growing almost twice as fast as arrivals, with a 4.7% increase. Rising rates more than offset the reduction in length of stay (also in line with recent years), which has led to a 1.15% decrease in overnight stays.
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>The Balearic Islands reached three million tourists in July. Cumulative tourist numbers in the first seven months of the year totaled 10.9 million, remaining above last year’s figures. Specifically, from January to July, 10,985,101 visitors arrived, representing a 2.5% increase compared to the same period last year. This increase is driven by the growth of international visitors, despite the sharp decline in German visitors already felt in May and June. In July, tourist numbers in the Balearic Islands’ largest market fell by as much as 8.5%.
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>Thus, the number of foreign visitors rises to 8.99 million, 3.2% more than in 2024. Visitors from other autonomous communities rose to 1.99 million, representing a very slight year-on-year decline (-0.27%), but breaking the uninterrupted growth trend of recent years, pandemic aside.
That’s amazing news for the locals. Hope the Brits stayed at home or did they lay waste to another foreign destination?
And a photo of Eastenders Bar in Shagaluf no less.
The Torygraph would say that
I mean that’s the same for almost every Tourist places, people of lives there on a daily basis working everything except Tourism aren’t happy about too many Tourists and then when slow down tourists, people who’s jobs are about Tourism aren’t happy, so one side will always be unsatisfied
Ban AirBNB and their ilk across Europe. It would solve a lot of problems.
Lmao no we don’t. Airbnb owners do. We don’t. But then again, it’s The Telegraph…
Is ‘backfire’ really the right expression? This is what the protestors wanted. The business owner’s didn’t want it but they weren’t protesting. I am quite curious to see what happens when a tourist economy voluntarily gives up that trade.
Seems like stupid bait.
Just go elsewhere. I spent my summer holiday here as the weather was great, and the winter holiday I went to Estonia.
Next month Romania.
Limiting yourself to a resort in Spain or Greece sounds so dull. Bulgaria is better anyway.
Torygraph lol
No one is missing cheap Brits who cause troubles
Plus they have tourists from other countries like Germany.
Fuck the Telegraph, right wing cunts
Oh no, a bunch of hotels and airbnbs need to go bankrupt and thus lower the cost of living in a beautiful island 🥺 would anyone think of the landlords
“British groups used to come in at 10am and drink right through to the evening.”….most revealing line, in more ways then one, encompasses drinking culture, british loutishness, business needs, capitalism, spanish need for customers……..very deep …that line
Germany be like: Am I not good enough?
The Telegraph!
But let’s be honest here overtourism is a major issue in a lot of parts of the world, and on island communities it can be an even bigger issue
The modern trend of throning every habitable space in a popular area for tourists into AirBnBs is literally destroying those communities people want to visit
All across Europe some cities are suffering bigger housing issues than they should be due to the proliferation of AirBnB properties, and hordes of tourists, Prague, Edinburgh, Barcelona, Dublin and Vienna spring immediately to mind
Of course some communities need tourism, the issue is that when there is too much and too much property taken away from the use of locals then the whole house of cards will collapse
AirBnB as an idea was interesting, people can rent out their home when they aren’t there, but I have seen entire buildings of flats put up in London, good homes in areas that are in desperate need of them, used as dedicated designed AirBnB type lettings
It’s not just AirBnB mind, there are lots of other players involved in this
A community like Mallorca can only really exist at the level it does with tourism, but if the locals who work in that trade cannot afford to live in the community in which they grew up in, then who is going to run the bars, the restaurants and the shops?
You have to strike the right balance and believe that today the balance has swung too far and we need to get it back before it’s too late
I feel like no one read the article
“This is usually a British destination, but this year there are zero,” said Olly from Lineker’s Bar, something of an institution in Magaluf.
“Instead we have the Germans, the French, Portuguese, Italians. But the problem is they book an all-inclusive hotel, then eat, drink and do everything in the hotel. They don’t go out for a party.”
Another member of the team, Carla, who is originally from Bradford but has lived in Mallorca for 20 years, told me that British groups used to come in at 10am and drink right through to the evening. On my mid-afternoon visit, the bar was empty
Its just bar owner complain about different type of tourist that doesn’t spend money in bar.
And as usual, one manager of hotel complain lack of business
Bullshit
Wait a second! So they interviewed non-Spanish owners of bars that offer “English breakfast” & “Sunday Roast” and complain that “tourists stay at Airbnb and cook” and “German tourists prefer all-inclusive hotels”, which led them to the conclusion that Spain’s “war on tourism” is backfiring?
Of course British food places miss British tourists! No one else would agree to eat THAT! (especially since it’s tourist trap quality anyway)
I live in Costa del Sol and all the British locals rely heavily on their own people. What do they expect from “Italians drinking coffee for hours”? Out of all British bars I’ve ever been to only one was capable of offering decent (drinkable) wine and none had any beer other than the cheapest on the market. That is by default a loss against any Spanish-owned, not to mention Belgian places.
Tastes differ, of course, but that’s why those places are struggling to survive low season. Even if I really like the owners, the best I can do is a donation, but I’m not getting a heartburn by putting any of that into my stomach.
At the same time, people in UK have gotten much poorer in the last years and many indeed prefer to “self-cater” these days. Perhaps, Telegraph should actually try to explain to them that they have to support their own more and eat those breakfasts every day. After all, they could turn down their heating to save up for a few fish&chips in Spain.
Those businesses can choose to adapt and cater more internationally or they can find a different way to cater to the British while in Spain.