Mallorca hoteliers welcome posters around the island following a series of ups and downs with signs that visit visitors to “go home”.
Electoral campaign groups in Mallorca have called on tourists to stay home and not surprise Spain, especially in the summer season, as they say it hurts infrastructure and harmful to their daily lives.
Anti -tender attitudes have led to large -scale protests such as one in the city of Palma in June, which led to thousands of residents going to the streets and demanding restrictions on visitors and a better tourism strategy.
Signs and slogans such as “Tourists go home” and “not to mass tourism” are often displayed during demonstrations.
Mallorca hotels are now standing up to what they describe as “tourists”, with the initiative of visitors to their holiday center.
The Mallorca Hotel Trade Federation (FEHM) has launched a collection of posters on digital billboards and ads and encourages other tourism companies and industry workers to use them.
These posters include slogans such as “Tourist, happy home. Soon to return to Mallorca”, a play of anti -tourist signs.
“Tourist, go home and go back soon” and “Tourist, don’t go home, be longer with us”.
Advertising boards end for two months during the crowded summer season, as many tourists begin to flock to Mallorca for the beach holidays.
The federation says they are using new slogans to remind tourists that the island is a hospitable and honored tourism industry, “unlike the rhetoric and actions that try to harm the tourism image and share it in the Ballerial community.”
The hotel group claims that hostility towards visitors from the “voice minority” is that it does not represent the rest of Balearics.
However, FEHM says it supports the balance between tourism, infrastructure, sustainability and peaceful coexistence with the inhabitants – something that the Apticism campaigns says they are fighting for.
One of the main stimulus of the initiative is employment protection, as Fehm points out that tourism provides more than one -third of the Balearic Islands.
The hotel sector is trying to improve its operations to improve its impact on the community, with a 13.5 percent increase over three years.
FEHM President Javier Weach emphasized that “without a tourist, there is no job and we all need to take care of tourism.”
Meanwhile, fighters against thresholds, such as Menys Turismme Més Vida (less tourism, more life) take a different position, claiming that the tourist industry makes people poor, makes it difficult to access housing and diverts its focus from the public sector.
The group said that in the negotiations for better work environments during the high season, it was in solidarity with hospitality workers, as there is usually a working class “exploitation” during this period.
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