Majorca warns UK tourists 'in the meantime' and says 'we urge you'

Majorca residents have warned it will "continue fighting" UK tourists over what they perceive to be "overtourism". After months of protests, campaigners who are orchestrating demonstrations and protests in the Balearic Islands have spoken out.

In a statement shared exclusively with the Express, environmental protest group ATAN said: “On the contrary, they have deepened their overdevelopment-focused and predatory model of the territory, which they have perpetuated for decades.”

“We will take to the streets in the very heart of this overdevelopment model: the tourist areas,” ATAN continued. “In the meantime, we urge people to continue fighting from every corner of the islands against this unjust model that is destroying our lives and our territory.

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"Let us once again set an example and reclaim what is ours, with strength and dignity: the Canary Islands have a limit, and it continues to be disrespected.” The warning comes as Brits head out for summer holidays to the Balearic holiday hotspot.

Majorca, belonging to Spain in the European Union, has seen its crisis deepen with anger growing amid resentment towards British visitors. Responding to the warning, a local fumed: "'ALL tourists are welcome. ' No they are not. The German ultras, the drunks in Illetas attacking waiters, the idiots in Magaluf jumping off balconies are not wanted, not needed and not welcome!"

"Tourism demand is never going to cease on these islands, unless climate change makes them deserts . That said the only way to reduce numbers is to increase prices, reduce cheap accommodation and forcibly move the market upwards. The reason low market cheap tourists don't go to the South of France is because since I was a young man they have promoted an image of its too posh and too expensive for the likes of you. That is the direction we need to be going in. That is why a PR campaign saying all tourists are welcome, both in Britain and in Germany is exactly what we don't want because the people who are going to hear that and take note are precisely the people we no longer need here," a second raged.

A third typed: "Bingo. Spot on. That's really the only solution. And the most natural progression. Simply forcing limits or imposing poorly designed legislation will only make it worse, or never happen."