{"id":410032,"date":"2025-09-09T09:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410032\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:03:12","slug":"half-of-people-say-they-avoided-spain-this-year-amid-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410032\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of people say they avoided Spain this year amid protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holidaymakers are heading to destinations including Italy and Greece<\/p>\n

Neil Shaw<\/strong> Assistant Editor<\/p>\n

09:48, 09 Sep 2025<\/p>\n

\"AnAn anti-tourism protest on June 15, 2025 in Barcelona, Spain<\/p>\n

More than half of people in a new survey said they had avoided Spain this year and decided to spend their holiday somewhere else. 56 per cent said they had avoided Spain amid ongoing protests against mass tourism.<\/p>\n

79 percent of the Brits polled said anti-tourist demonstrations have made Spain less appealing. According to Slice Mobile<\/a> research, Italy was the number one spot for Brits this year, with Greece, America, Dubai, France, and Portugal also making the list of ideal travel destinations.<\/p>\n

Jenna Banks, spokesperson for Slice Mobile, said: \u201cIt\u2019s clear from the research that Britain\u2019s love of Spain has been put to the test. We may not have said adios to Marbella completely, but with long-haul destinations like Dubai and America becoming more popular, finding a mobile network that offers great value international roaming, like Slice Mobile, is more important than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

TOP HOLIDAY HOTSPOTS FOR THOSE AVOIDING SPAIN<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Italy \u2013 19%<\/li>\n
  2. Greece \u2013 16%<\/li>\n
  3. America \u2013 15%<\/li>\n
  4. Dubai \u2013 13%<\/li>\n
  5. Canary Islands \u2013 13%<\/li>\n
  6. France \u2013 12%<\/li>\n
  7. Portugal \u2013 11%<\/li>\n
  8. Turkey \u2013 11%<\/li>\n
  9. Canada \u2013 10%<\/li>\n
  10. Thailand \u2013 9%<\/li>\n
  11. Cyprus \u2013 8%<\/li>\n
  12. Australia \u2013 8%<\/li>\n
  13. Malta \u2013 8%<\/li>\n
  14. Maldives \u2013 8%<\/li>\n
  15. South Africa \u2013 7%<\/li>\n
  16. Croatia \u2013 7%<\/li>\n
  17. Germany \u2013 7%<\/li>\n
  18. Ireland \u2013 7%<\/li>\n
  19. Mexico \u2013 7%<\/li>\n
  20. Bali \u2013 6%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holidaymakers are heading to destinations including Italy and Greece Neil Shaw Assistant Editor 09:48, 09 Sep 2025 An…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-410032","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","11":"tag-travel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115173536848375757","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410032","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=410032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}