Majorca to hold ‘anti-tourist’ protest following Canary Islands demonstrations

‘Anti tourism’ protests are set to take place in the popular holiday destination of Majorca later this month. It comes after demonstrations were held in the Spanish Canary Islands in April as concerns grow among locals over the rising number of tourists.

The demonstration is set to happen on Saturday, May 27 in Palma, Majorca’s capital, Majorca Daily Bulletin reports. It said that organisers have called for the protest “to say ENOUGH to tourist overcrowding”.

The organisers said: “On the 25th of May we have to take to the streets. To say ENOUGH to tourist overcrowding, to say ENOUGH to the destruction of the territory, to say ENOUGH to the lack of protection suffered by the people who live on the islands.

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"We have to go out to demand accountability from the institutions, because we want to live in our home, to protect our lives and because we do not want Mallorca to become a luxury resort. For the right to housing, for the protection of the territory, of our own language and culture.”

On Wednesday, May 8, President of the Balearic Islands Marga Prohens responded to media questions about the protests. Posting on X, she said: “This Government understands that limits are necessary, we must make possible coexistence between tourist activity and the well-being of the residents of the Balearic Islands.”

The protests come after thousands of people took to the streets in the Canary Islands to protest against tourism in April. Demonstrations took place across the group of islands, which include Tenerife, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and La Palma, holding placards saying ‘Canaries have a limit’. Those protests were