This survey will seek opinions regarding tourist overcrowding and any negative impact of tourism growth over recent years. Turespaña has classified municipalities according to the scale of tourism, the first of three profiles including Palma and certain other municipalities in Mallorca and the Balearics; these amount to around thirty in total.
The objective is to analyse the problem of overcrowding and then draw up appropriate strategies to solve or mitigate it.
Julio López Astor, Turespaña's deputy director of knowledge and tourism studies, says that the intention of the survey is to "put a scientific layer on the debate about overcrowding and know what a community thinks". "There is a silent majority whose opinion often doesn't come to light."
"It is necessary to develop indicators that are easy to interpret but sufficiently representative of the underlying reality that can serve as future statistical references in measuring the social sustainability of tourism," explains López Astor. An application of resulting information will be the directing of tourism promotion.
"We are going to know what people think and how they view it (overcrowding). The most important thing is to understand how it affects the population consulted in each case, to know where these perceptions come from and to measure them."
The consultations will be carried out in August and November, months that equate in most cases to peak tourism and the start of the low season.
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Let's all not book holidays here, and see if their opinion changes. Bet you their holiday makers money, they will very quickly change their minds once their income is massively reduced.
As the MDB advertises itself “for English speaking residents of Mallorca” why aren’t you reporting on the new pensions and social security agreement signed in Madrid last week between Spain and the United States? This surely will be of interest to those of your readers who are US citizens and reside here. Not only British people speak English! This of course has nothing to do with the above article but I didn’t know where to post it.
One thing Tourists bring is contageous infections. A woman coughed all over the Bus and area where I was sitting. I have been very ill now for a week. My throat and thorax are badly infected and I can not stop coughing. Antibiotics are not working. Hooping Cough has killed.