Marga Prohens' Government cannot be blamed for decades of saturation. However, the social and environmental movements calling for this summer's demonstrations – Menorca is giving the lead – consider that “it cannot be stated that they have taken a single real containment measure, not even to mitigate the impacts,” according to UIB geographer Macià Blázquez.

The Neura collective has made public a collection of testimonies from musicians from the Islands who question the model of the Mallorca Live Festival and denounce that the festival uses local artists as a "quota" to justify public subsidies while reserving secondary spaces in the programming for them, with low fees and few opportunities for real projection.

A group of activists from the Platform Against Airport Expansion and SOS Residents held a protest at Palma Airport this Friday, coinciding with the inauguration of the new air route connecting Mallorca with Dubai. The demonstrators staged an "ironic welcome" for the first passengers of the flight to denounce the environmental and social impact that, in their opinion, the opening of new international connections to the island entails.

The installation of a promotional stand by the airline company Etihad Airways in Palma's Porta Pintada square has forced the Balearic Islands Blood and Tissue Bank this Thursday to move its usual activity to Plaça d'Espanya, a situation that has also altered the institutional event planned for World Blood Donor Day. The company has occupied this space to promote the new direct connection between Abu Dhabi and Mallorca, which will begin operating this Friday, June 12.

The Hotel Business Federation of Mallorca (FEHM) expressed this Tuesday its respect for the demonstration called against the tourist saturation planned for July in Palma, but has harshly criticized the narrative of the protest, which it considers "uses tourism as a punching bag".

The rise of artificial intelligence as a tool for planning trips is not only changing how vacations are decided, but is also beginning to have a direct effect on which territories receive more tourist pressure. A study on tourist consumption trends points out that Sant Antoni de Portmany, in Ibiza, and Ciutadella in Menorca, are among the destinations recommended by AI agents to travelers, a fact that places the Balearic Islands within a new ecosystem of automated recommendations that may end up conditioning tourist flows even further.

A figure dressed in traditional peasant attire, her face hidden behind a skull mask and, often, dragging a large bag of rubbish. This is how Madò Farta has presented herself on social media, a new anonymous character who, in a few days, has begun to make her mark in different settings in Mallorca with a message against tourist overcrowding and, in particular, against incivility.

A new call to fill Palma

The discontent against tourist overcrowding will return to the streets this summer. The platform Menys Turisme, Més Vida (Less Tourism, More Life) has called a new large demonstration in Palma for July 26 at 7:00 PM with the aim of repeating the massive mobilizations of recent years and placing the tourism model back at the center of political and social debate.

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For years, Cuba was one of the star destinations in the Caribbean for residents of the Balearic Islands. Its beaches, colonial heritage, culture, and close ties with Mallorcan tourism companies made it a regular choice for travel agencies. Today, however, the situation is very different. Vacation bookings to the island have plummeted, and the sector openly admits it no longer recommends it with the same confidence as before.

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The Spanish tourism sector has opened a new front of confrontation with the Ministry of the Interior over the traveler registry. The main hotel and travel agency associations have called for the repeal of Royal Decree 933/2021 after the European Commission opened an infringement procedure against Spain for possible violations in the processing of personal data.

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Ibiza constitutes a tourist offering without competition. It sounds exaggerated but it is not. What makes the difference are the discotheques, the best in the world, as recognized by several awards in the last couple of years (the Golden Moon Awards and the annual DJ Mag ranking). Clubs have always been the distinctive Ibizan element, but their weight in the overall offering has skyrocketed since the Matutes Group entered the business with three large venues: Ushuaïa, Hï, and for two seasons now, UNVRS. Right now in Ibiza you can party at night or during the day, under the stroboscopic lights of a club or on a beach, it doesn't matter.

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The history of Melià Hotels International in Cuba can only be understood within the economic shift experienced by the Caribbean island in the late eighties and early nineties. With the fall of the Soviet bloc between 1989 and 1991, Cuba loses its main economic support and enters the so-called Special Period, a stage of profound crisis marked by a lack of foreign currency, scarcity of basic products, and the collapse of a large part of productive activity.

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The Mallorcan hotel chain Melià Hotels International has decided to immediately end the management, commercialization, and brand licensing services for 15 hotels in Cuba. The decision comes in a context marked by pressure from the United States on foreign companies operating on the island and after the Donald Trump administration set June 5 as the deadline to take measures against companies linked to business with the Cuban military conglomerate Gaeasa.

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The 'Less Tourism, More Life' platform has publicly denounced the creation of six new boarding gates in module D of Palma airport. This expansion, the platform has criticized in a message published on its X social network account, has occurred during the works being carried out at Son Sant Joan.

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Less Tourism, More Life has already set a date for the new protest against tourist saturation in the Balearic Islands: July 26th. This Sunday, June 7th, on the steps of the Cathedral, the organization will present both this call to action and other actions planned for this summer to fight against massification and the economic and tourism model of the Archipelago.

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The Balearic Islands received 958,008 travelers in April, 7.7% more than in the same period last year. According to data published this Monday by the National Statistics Institute (INE), these visitors have generated 4,213,066 overnight stays in hotels, tourist apartments, and rural tourism accommodations, a figure that represents an increase of 4.9% compared to April 2025.

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Aena has responded to the Government's criticism over the installation of a large advertising banner at Palma Airport which, according to the Executive and a large part of the public opinion of many residents, projects an image of Mallorca associated with tourist excesses.

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The music scene of the Balearic Islands has also raised its voice against the tourist overcrowding experienced in the Archipelago, and more and more groups and artists are dedicating songs to denounce the saturation and how residents have been relegated to being practically second-class citizens to the detriment of tourists. The latest to do so have been the Mallorcan artists Amulet and Xisk, who have released the track In Paradise, a new criticism of tourist overcrowding and the current model of the Balearic Islands. In the song, they ironically and poignantly review the problems that this saturation derives from and how the Archipelago has become a theme park where residents are the last. In fact, the first line of the song already makes this message clear: "I come from a land that no longer wants me. Theme park, next to Hong Kong".

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A new advertising poster entirely in German installed at Palma Airport has once again ignited the debate about mass tourism in Mallorca. The campaign, located on the facade of the car park building and visible from the main exit of the arrivals terminal, uses the slogan 'Was auf Malle passiert, wird auf Malle beglichen' ('what happens in Mallorca is settled in Mallorca').

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