UK tourists warned as Canary Islands, Majorca and more placed on ‘no travel’ list for 2025

Tourists are being urged to avoid holiday hotspots such as the Canary Islands, Majorca and Venice in 2025 as they are “collapsing” due to their popularity, according to a travel guide.

Each year Fodor’s publishes a ‘No List’ highlighting “destinations suffering from untenable popularity”. It warns that prioritising visitors can result in the destinations becoming “prohibitively expensive, homogenized, or even destroyed”, which ultimately doesn’t result in a “happy” travel experience.

The list for 2025 includes destinations in Europe which made the headlines this year due to anti-tourism protests, graffiti and more, or have introduced measures to combat the rising number of visitors.

Explaining why these holiday hotspots have been selected, Fodor’s said: “These locations are popular for good reason—they are stunning, intriguing, and culturally significant. However, some of these highly coveted tourist spots are collapsing under the burden of their own prominence.”

Fodor’s highlights the Spanish city of Barcelona, the island of Majorca and the Canary Islands. In Barcelona locals sprayed holidaymakers with water pistols in the summer and the city also announced it would ban all short-term holiday rentals by 2028.

Regular demonstrations took place in Majorca, with locals occupying beaches. Two major protests were held in the Canary Islands, first in April and then for a second time in October. During the latter a reported 10,000 demonstrators took part, chanting slogans like “The Canary Islands are not for sale” and “we are foreigners in our land”.

The list also includes Venice, which introduced a five euro fee this year for daytrippers visiting the city on certain days.

Fodor’s explains how many of the destinations