READ MORE All the dates in June UK faces first heatwave of year with temperatures at least 28C<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThey ask you for deposits of several months. Some have even told me that they don’t want children, they don’t want animals. And so many people are looking,” another said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s impossible to sustain this sort of model,” said a 25-year-old. \u201cBusinesses are changing from ones selling traditional products to multi-nationals selling ice cream and we are losing our identity. We want to preserve our culture,” he says.<\/p>\n
The BBC also quizzed holidaymakers over whether they have heard about the various protests that have been taking place and if it made them think twice about coming out to Majorca.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw a little bit on the news\u201d, said one. “But I tried not to watch it because I didn\u2019t want it to stress me out and put me off coming because we\u2019d already booked and paid for it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t the tourists boost it and make the money for this place?” a second asked. \u201cPeople travel around the world and this is it. With no tourists there\u2019d be no jobs, no wages, no nowt.<\/p>\n
“They rely on it, don\u2019t they?\u201d It comes after stats show Spain welcomed 25.6 million people in the first four months of the year, representing a 7.1% increase on the same period last year. Brits continued to be the largest cohort, with over 4.7 million arrivals over that period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of Majorcans are protesting this weekend against the surge in tourism that is being blamed for plummeting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-162204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114634921367241718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Spain begins hostile ‘fightback’ on UK tourists with millions of Brits warned<\/p>\n