This coming Sunday, June 15, a wave of symbolic yet powerful water-pistol protests will sweep across Europe’s most pressured tourist destinations - including Barcelona, Mallorca, Ibiza, Menorca, San Sebastián, Granada, Tenerife, Málaga, and neighboring Venice and Lisbon—to call attention to the social and environmental costs of overtourism.
The protests, organised by the Southern Europe Network Against Touristification (SET) and supported by campaigns like the Mallorcan Menys Turisme Més Vida, aim to shine a spotlight on overcrowded streets, disappearing housing stock, and ecological strain. The movement Menys Turisme, Més Vida (less tourism, more life), which organised the demonstrations against tourist overcrowding last summer, is going to redouble efforts in view of the growth forecasts for the new season. In a statement, the platform explained its intention to intensify its actions towards local issues such as housing and job insecurity.
The movement is intensifying actions ‘after seeing the Balearic government’s new tourist campaign, the announcements of billion-dollar investments, the boom in property speculation and luxury tourism while the housing problem worsens, while policies only favour the liberalisation of land and favour speculation and business in a context of serious climate and ecological crisis, with the negotiation of the hospitality agreement on the table, and the failure - more than foreseeable - of the Pact for Sustainability round tables’.
The tourism authorities of both autonomous communities are in talks to coordinate action. The idea is to mutually benefit from the experience not only through the sharing of knowledge, but also in terms of the drafting of laws and regulations.
The legislation that is to be developed against overcrowding will be an unprecedented initiative for a problem that has been growing for some time, but for which political intervention has not been forthcoming until now. Going hand in hand in the legal arena will provide both communities with greater security in possible legal approaches that may meet with opposition from the private sector or even the state administration.
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Organ WelshmanI think you'll find the most uneducated are the ones who vote against their own interests ie for Vox.
Maybe the local and national governments should explain where all of the money made from tourism goes? It doesn't seem to be on affordable housing.
Let the unwashed, lefty uneducated people have their day in the sun. One of the most badly educated regions in Spain, Mallorca's young people are not fit for anything (not even the hospitality business) hence why so many South Americans are here. Just ignore them, they will move on to some other woke lefty cause like 'save the mung beetle'.
This is going to be another Gathering of the know it all Communists who have a lot of different names but really just Communists and they will never be happy , Good luck with that it has never worked and never will !
There is already a significant reduction of Tourists in Mallorca. Sundays demonstration will make matters much worse.
What does this mean? “A wave of symbolic yet powerful water-pistol protests”