The threat of rock falls, water contamination and jellyfish have been used to deter visitors from Mallorcan beaches

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    1 year ago

    To be fair, they spent years encouraging that kind of tourism and are no annoyed that they’ve got to popular. As the article points out it represents 75% of their economic activity so they’d be buggered if everyone just said, fine we’ll go somewhere else then.

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      1 year ago

      Nah, not really. They want to change from party tourism, which is concentrated on one small area to a more distributed culture tourism. Those tourist spend twice as much and not only in the big clubs but on small shops all around the island. So they have a plan and it makes sense.

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        1 year ago

        Sounds like the role of the government to shape the tourist visa availability

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                1 year ago

                Obviously not. Why would the only options be zero tourism controls or leave the EU?

                So many people here can only consider black and white, it’s such limited thinking.

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                    1 year ago

                    Visas, residency/rental restrictions, curfews, noise ordinances, non local surcharges, resident member beaches (membership fulfilled by residency), or a hundred other things

                    Edit: example: in palm springs, you cannot have any outdoor music or elevated noise as a non resident.

                    If you do, you can be evicted from your rental same day