Protesters hold a banner reading ‘Mallorca is not for sale’ during a demonstration to protest against excess tourism in Palma de Mallorca Marga Prohens, the president of the Balearic Islands regional government, said authorities must target “quality tourism” rather than simply trying to attract more tourists.
Mrs Prohens said the conservative government in the islands had approved a series of 700 housing projects, lowered tax on property sales and transferred public land so developers can make more rental housing. Holding up posters, some in English, which read ‘Too Many Tourists…SOS Residents’, demonstrators filled the streets of the capital of the largest Balearic Island.
However, he stressed that campaigners did not oppose tourism but were against the current mass tourism model which had forced him to leave the island to live in the Spanish mainland.