Some thirty teams in Mallorca created a human chain across the Consolat de Mar, the Balearic authorities’s headquarters. Earlier than forming the chain, the author Sebastià Alzamora learn a manifesto, which careworn the necessity to cease a quantity of tourism “that’s main us to disaster“. “After Covid, we discover ourselves going through aggressive, huge and overflowing tourism.”

Alzamora mentioned that “the supposed advantages of tourism this yr don’t forestall the anguish of autumn and winter and the uncertainty of employees forward of the following season”. “The one potential sustainability is degrowth, with restricted locations and arrivals, with out infrastructure enlargement, and financial diversification to fulfill actual wants relatively than a predatory mannequin that excessively consumes items, providers and customary areas.”

Maribel Alcázar of the Palma federation of residents associations insisted that “this isn’t tourismphobia however the want for tourism to be built-in into actual sustainability and be suitable with the well-being of society”.