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The message was scrawled on a makeshift wooden placard with black marker pen and was in block capitals. It read: “Everywhere you look everyone is foreign.”
Police said there were 10,000 marchers on the streets of Palma in Majorca on the last weekend of May at the start of the summer holiday season. Their message was that tourism was making life in Palma unliveable for locals.
But why does there suddenly seem to be such a strong sense of grievance in places where for decades large numbers of tourists have been the norm?
The answer, it would seem, is complicated. A Covid hangover is definitely a factor. But so too is the fact that, globally, many more people now have the money to travel. This presents big questions about the future of tourism.
