<![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - merchants]]> 10 <![CDATA[Traders of Sóller ask that the demonstration against massification be changed: "It will affect commercial activity"]]>

The demonstration called by the Moviment Jove de Sóller and the platform Menys Turisme, Més Vida for next Saturday, August 8 arrives surrounded by controversy. After the tensions derived from the multitudinous protest against tourist overcrowding on July 26 in Palma, marked by the charges of the National Police at the end of the route, the controversy has now moved to Sóller. Just over a week before the mobilization, the Association of Merchants of Carrer de la Lluna has requested to modify the itinerary or the schedule of the march for security reasons and the impact it could have on commercial activity, a request that the organizers reject and interpret as an attempt to displace the protest from the main commercial axis of the municipality.

]]> <![CDATA[Against the disappearance of local commerce: we all have a role to play]]> In the last fifteen years, 5,000 businesses have closed their doors in the Balearic Islands. It's a staggering figure and shows that we are facing a profound change in the model that goes beyond the economy. The closure of traditional commerce is also a process of collective loss: of the uniqueness of our streets, of the identity of neighborhoods and towns, of the network of trust and mutual support that is generated between customers and merchants.

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