Why residents of Spain’s holiday hotspot Mallorca want tourists to stay home | DW News

Sadly, this is happening in many parts of the world. It’s not unique to Mallorca.

Their local authorities are 100% to blame!

NYC is expected to receive 64.5M tourists this year in 2024. Don’t blame tourists. Blame your local politicians and for the most part, just plain greed.

Spain could restrict foreigners from purchasing land and houses like Denmark does. In fact, most European countries should probably do something like that to keep housing costs lower.

Crazy question: Why doesn't Mallorca charge a 50 euro head tax for every tourist? That's small potatoes compared to the price of their trip, but close to a billion euros per year that the Govt could put into improving the lives of the locals.

I am from Mallorca, and moved out years ago. Mallorca has became a theme park. Locals do not live thanks to tourism, tourism lives on locals needs. You can not affodd hosing, even if you have a good job, you can not save, food is epenseve, you can not walk on the streets many time of the year... The social and economic structure is being ripped apart. It's no longer a place to live with tourists, it's a theme park with locals as NPC.

Landlords are kicking out tenants in order to make more money on AirBnB. A lot of owners' associations actually prohibit holiday lets, but owners ignore them.

I don't understand why they're venting on tourists when they should be demanding their government to regulate rental rates and renting out for tourists 🥴

why do they blame the tourists..??? their own government is incapable of introducing rules about the rental of apartments...makes a law with rent restrictions and minimum rental period.😳

That's why I never stay in Airbnb in Mallorca. There are plenty of hotels with pools and dining facilities in designated tourist areas, without taking away living spaces from the locals.

Airbnb destroys neighborhoods

Here’s the thing about tourism, getting them to leave is easy. Getting them to come back is extremely difficult.

They are blaming tourists, when the issue lies with how their government regulates tourism and slumlords. If the country regulated their pay and benefits, they could have better pay. And the country shouldn't allow 30 ppl in one small apartment.

But those people living in the basement are not Spaniards, they are immigrants.

Housing crisis appears to be an issue globally, not just the U.S.

Let's ban Airbnb. Everywhere. Houses are to live in, not for holidaymakers, thats what hotels are for.

When Mallorca stops being a good tourist value, then the numbers will drop. Spain is a large and beautiful country; much to see.

Short-term rental is the issue. Ban airbnb. Blame the government, not the tourist, punto.

The same thing, although still in the early stages, is happening in Malta. We have hundreds of new restaurants and cafes each year, all being allowed to take public space to put tables and chairs, new massive hotels being built everywhere, new apartments in every corner for airbnb, traffic jams everywhere at every time of the day, it is extremely hot and overcrowded in summer and there are too many jobs that can't be filled because we have no workers, we currently have 80K+ workers from Asia living here to work in the hospitality industry because there aren't any Maltese workers left. The locals here however are just complacent. No large scale protests. We depend enormously on tourism but there are a handful of very very wealthy people who are taking it a little too far.

With a population of 900,000 that is an absurd amount of tourists.