You are playing a dangerous game, British travel chief warns islands
Protests and comments make tourists feel unwelcome
Holiday giant, Jet2, has warned that the Canary Islands are "playing a dangerous game" following anti-tourism protests. The warning from Britain's top travel company comes to anyone planning to visit Lanzarote and Tenerife, according to British media reports.
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Burgundy BlueI was planning to write your answer almost word for word. Note to CD-C : I have heard that argument time after time after forty years plus of time, which by the way takes us back to the 80's when Mallorca had already been rockin' & rollin' for 20 years. There are only two things I can think of which will stop Mallorca being attractive to Europe's thirty odd countries. Severe climate change ( ie total drought) or mass migration in vast numbers from North Africa, possibly driven by the same.
It's not a "game". It's a trend. Mallorca is increasingly appealing to a quality oriented tourist. You can choose to ignore that aspire to continue to attract a declining (and less lucrative) demographic, or embrace it, invest in it, and reap the benefits of that trend.
His remarks are also applicable to Mallorca. I've said before on these pages that the anti-tourism protestors could cost Mallorca 40 years of brand and destination building in addition to multi-millions in loss of earnings. The protestors will be directly responsible for a tourism downturn and each protestor should be held to account for the income losses by being summoned to pay their share of the lost tourism income. The damage the protestors are doing to Mallorca's main source of revenue is immense and they cannot be allowed to get away with it with impunity.
Well if there's a reduction of say 10% in tourist numbers, then that is a good thing. And it's funny how the airlines/hotels etc putting their prices up won't scare off tourists, but the government asking for a few euros (tourist tax) will.
"Not everyone is rich, and many tourists simply want an affordable and relaxing holiday” he says. And why on earth does he think that it is the residents of The Canaries and The Baleares who should suffer hardship to provide this?