The mayor of Calvia, a patch at the island of Mallorca, has condemned anti-tourism protests amid fears a crackdown on binge consuming will pressure vacationers away.
Mayor Juan Antonio Amengual stated that even if they’re “changing Magaluf”, British, German and Italian vacationers are nonetheless “really welcome” within the boozy Mallorcan hotspot.
“My message is all the British are really welcome in Calvia, that is very important… it’s not the same message you have heard in the other government,” he advised the Day by day Mail.
“We want the people to enjoy [their holidays] with respect between tourists and the residents… this situation now is creating ‘tourism-phobia’ coming from these behaviours from some tourists, not all tourists.”
In Magaluf, the tourism season has been prolonged to run between March and November, and officers hope they are able to retain the team spirit between holidaymakers and locals. In the past, height season at the island lasted from Would possibly to September.
“The British people and the Mallorcan people and the Spanish people, we live together, and I don’t want to see a problem”, mayor Amengual stated.
Unused measures to keep watch over the behaviour of partying Brits, together with a boulevard consuming oppose and restrictions at the late-night gross sales of booze, are all set to be trialled till December 2027.
Beneath the regulation, anti-social boulevard drinkers may face a fantastic between €500 (£430) and €1,500 (£1,290) for disrupting the “tranquillity of the environment”.
For summer time 2024, Mr Amengual says unrevealed law enforcement officials will even be deployed to halt prostitution, topless vacationers and the sale of substances at the Magaluf strip.
“My dream or what I want is Magaluf to become a destination of day activity and night activity but how it’s been always – not focus the problem in one street and one problem.
“We have worked very hard to remove the name of Magaluf. In the past, they tried to change the name of Magaluf to Calvia Beach – but now it’s not this way. We want to protect the word “Magaluf” like Ibiza, like Mallorca, as a emblem that may be a obese emblem.”
The threat of “tourism-phobia” comes as anti-tourism protests sweep Spain.
In line with issues over aggregate tourism, demonstrations have been deliberate in Mallorca on Would possibly 27, which coincides with the primary hour of the United Kingdom part time period.
Matching demonstrations are deliberate in Ibiza this presen following chaos within the Canary Islands on the finish of April when hundreds took to the streets in Tenerife to protest expanding vacationer footfall.
Balearic Islands president Marga Prohens additionally just lately advocated for proscribing the expansion of tourism to prioritise “value, not volume”.
