Balearic tourism keeps on growing - 17 million mark set to be passed this year

Johnny CAccording to this and other British media outlets, Brits are apparently the overwhelming majority of tourists. Anyone can see this because whenever you go to a British resort, it's entirely dominated by British people. The other 80% apparently don't count, because, well, they aren't British (and nobody goes to those far flung foreign places anyway). The long running threat has been that unless Spain (including Mallorca) offers cheap accommodation, drinks and meals to the largest and most important segment of tourism (Brits), then there will be a mass exodus to cheaper locations. It's not just the MDB, it's all over British tabloid media. And even in mainstream British media. And because Britons are the overwhelmingly dominant tourist, then the whole country will go broke, right? That's been the threat for years now. However, statistically, there appears to be no such exodus (ok, maybe a few Brits went to Greece instead, but nobody noticed), and even more inexplicable, there's consistently increasing demand for quality offerings over whatever is cheapest. Regardless of nationality. As you can see from many narratives here and in other British media, many Brits are repeatedly demanding cheapness, or threatening to leave. Yet, the many upmarket 4 and 5* accommodations not located in the handful of British resorts here seem to be dominated by "foreigners", and more are popping up all the time. And fully booked. Far more by "foreigners" than British tourists. How's that possible? Britons are the defacto dominant (and most important) tourists here, right? Since this 17m number apparently does count (while the other 80% non-british tourism apparently doesn't), then where do these huge numbers of tourists [that matter] come from? Surely they must be British, no? In the end, the industry has constantly been threatened (by Brits) with exodus for not being cheap enough, yet demand is demonstrably still as high as ever (though British demand is actually falling slightly). So I suspect most rational minds can see that there's not much motivation to make any more exceptions for Brits. The actual reality suggests there's plenty of others that will happily fill that gap. And they aren't seeking the cheapest.

Johnny CWell, the MDB publishes this British reassurance stuff regularly. https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/comment/2023/09/28/117483/the-tourism-nightmare-europe.html

Johnny CJohnny, you must forgive Mr Williams. His eyesight is not good, so he gets one of his grand daughters to read the paper for him and as his hearing is even worse, he sometimes misunderstands what she is saying. Not to worry though. They make up for it by giving him lots of lovely positive votes.

Morgan WilliamsI don't see the mention of 'Brits' anywhere in the article. It's about total number of tourists, not just British. There are tourists from many different countries and a large number of Spaniards from the peninsula. Why do people seem to think that the British make up the majority of holidaymakers in the Balearics?

Funny, we've been told for years that there's an imminent mass exodus of Brits because of declining availability of cheapness. So where are all these Brits coming from? And how do they pay for it?