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The Rise of Anti-Tourist Sentiment in Spain…

Summary by Slugger O'Toole
Last weekend tens of thousands of Mallorcan residents thronged the streets of the island’s capital, Palma de Mallorca to protest at the unsustainable level of tourism on the island under the slogan ‘Mallorca al limite’ (Majorca at the limit) :  The protest turned violent when the Spanish National Police baton charged parts of the crowd and fired rubber bullets: The Policía Nacional have claimed that the violence occurred only after some of the p…

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Last year in the Canary Islands, this year in the Balearic Islands. The main tourist islands of Spain have become the hottest front of a social protest that grows from season to season, that of residents against the economic model on which the country's tourism industry is based for decades. Sunday, in Palma de Mallorca, tens of thousands of [...] L'articolo The revolt of Majorca against mass tourism, 70,000 in the square: polemics for the polic…

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Slugger O'Toole broke the news on Wednesday, July 29, 2026.
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