Empty beaches in Majorca as impact of protesters scaring off British tourists laid bare | World | News
Once upon a time on the popular Balear Island, a number of overdoing protests was abandoned by visitors. Tourism officials and natives, as the anti -tourist emotion spread, especially in the UK and Germany holidaymakers made a decrease. Journalist Humphrey Carter said that although some of the Spanish island is in the midst of summer holidays, it was “the quietest I’ve ever seen until today”.
He wrote for him Majorka Daily Bulletin: “I have gone to the Sa Rapita from Illetas in Mallorca over the past few months and to some of the most symbolic beaches, and I haven’t encountered mass tourism and extreme crowded problems. Actually, the opposite was the opposite. Last Saturday afternoon, the last Saturday afternoon was the quietest and the most intense of the highest season.”
Palma, the capital of the island, which has been the place of many extreme shows since last summer, has also seen an exit visitor according to Carter.
He continued: “Where are they all and what do they do? Because as the restaurant industry points out, I do not see them on the beaches, nor in the evenings, not at palma and other hot points.”
This, restaurants, nightlife and tourist holiday villages representing associations, visitor spending in the middle of an overwhelming season on the Spanish island warned.
Juanmi Ferrer, President of the Caeb Restaurants Association, says that these messages “scare visitors”.
Pedro Oliver, President of the Tour Guides College, said that the travel sales fell 20% this summer and the worst affected areas were Valldemossa, Palma and Port Lefts.
Authority warned that foreign tourists from countries such as England, Germany and Italy have the impression that Majorka was “very crowded” and therefore chose other destinations for their holidays.
In Benidorm, pictures of empty bars and quite quite quite quiet beaches appeared. It has been reported that the number of visitors has been the first decline since Covid-19 pandemi.
