July 26: there is already a date for the new demonstration against tourist overcrowding in the Balearic Islands

PalmaLess 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.

This has been confirmed by the spokesperson for the platform Menys Turisme, Més Vida, Pere Joan Femenia, to ARA Balears, who assured that they are "tired of the political discourse of small measures that have no real impact and of so many studies and reviews that lead to nothing". The reasons for the concentration are the same as in previous years, when several concentrations and protest actions have already been carried out. This year's slogan will be "Mallorca is at its limit".

Sources from the organization recall and emphasize that it cannot be that every year records of tourist arrivals are broken, that the saturation and overcrowding is "unbearable" and that this has very negative consequences for residents. They detail that the quality of life has decreased "significantly", the housing access problems that islanders have, the great environmental burden it entails...

In fact, through their social networks they have released a video denouncing that "the tourist model has limits and we have long since surpassed them". "They tell us that we have to accept any tourist record as a success, even if it implies more collapse, more deterioration of living conditions", they criticize.

Regarding citizen participation both in the demonstration and in the actions that will be announced next Sunday, Less Tourism, More Life reminds us that "not taking to the streets would mean normalizing the touristification and collapse, allowing the government and economic interests to interpret silence as a victory".