{"id":58799,"date":"2025-04-29T00:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T00:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/58799\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T00:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T00:22:10","slug":"spain-starts-desperate-last-minute-attempt-to-try-and-stop-uk-tourists-arriving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/58799\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain starts desperate last-minute attempt to try and stop UK tourists arriving"},"content":{"rendered":"

An initiative has been launched on social media entitled ‘Welcome to Sollerland’<\/p>\n

Artificial intelligence has become the latest tool for activists in Majorca as they wage war against the overtourism plaguing the Balearic Island.<\/p>\n

EU holidaymakers are being targeted with a sophisticated AI campaign aimed at dissuading them from visiting.<\/p>\n

On Instagram, a provocative profile named ‘Welcome to Sollerland’ has popped up, stirring controversy with its aim to expose the impact of excessive tourism in Soller. The account uses AI-generated images to paint a grim forecast of the locale’s renowned sites.<\/p>\n

Just four days ago, this social network channel posed the query: “What will this summer be like in So\u0301ller?”<\/p>\n

Accompanying that question was an AI-generated response. The post portrayed numerous scenes, including a Plaza de la Constitucio\u0301n swamped with tourists and hire cars.<\/p>\n

Also featured in the post is the famous So\u0301ller train, which appears overcrowded with passengers. One image shows a man, surrounded by a crowd, holding a sign that reads “I was from here.”<\/p>\n

Another image captures a girl on an overloaded So\u0301ller train amidst visitors engrossed in their phones, wearing a t-shirt with the same slogan, reports Birmingham Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The most recent image in the series features a child on a crowded beach, holding a sign that reads, “I used to play here.”<\/p>\n

One local resident responded: “I drove into and passed Soller a few times last week. The gridlock was mostly caused by cars stopping and looking\/waiting for parking spaces. If local authorities would guide traffic better there would not be an issue. As it happened there was nobody to be seen.<\/p>\n

“And cars holding up everyone behind them all the time. Simple. In typical Mallorquin style, complain but never any relevant action.”<\/p>\n

This comes as Soller council is introducing a “non-resident traffic zone”, covering an area of around 70 hectares.<\/p>\n

This initiative is part of an experimental low emission zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An initiative has been launched on social media entitled ‘Welcome to Sollerland’ Artificial intelligence has become the latest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,1699,104,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-58799","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-european-union","11":"tag-spain","12":"tag-travel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114418400856773806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58799","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=58799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}