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Bookings in a few of Mallorca's most popular summer season holiday resorts have dropped by as much as 20 per cent, state hoteliers on the Balearic Island, suggesting holidaymakers are voting with their feet following anti-tourism marches.

The hoteliers association that represents the resorts of Alcudia and Can say their key markets have actually slowed in current months.

The news comes following major anti-tourism demonstrations across mainland Spain and its islands this year - with another big protest march in the pipeline for Mallorca's capital next weekend.

Recently, thousands of bold anti-tourism protesters swore to bring the streets of Palma to a dead stop on June 15th, with agents of around 60 groups saying they're preparing to march.

The Alcudia and Can Picafort hoteliers association this week said bookings had actually dropped throughout key markets, including Germany, its primary market, reporting a 15% to 20% slump on last year.

Pablo Riera-Marsa, president of the hotelier's Association, said: 'We are seeing how the German market, traditionally our Number 1 market, is the one that has slowed down the most.'

However, the Majorca Daily Bulletin reports that the group is positive that late reservations would still see figures increase, stating tourists were edging their bets on deal last-gasp deals.

He described: 'We are detecting that this season, last-minute bookings are when again ending up being more popular, with tourists waiting for special deals and promos before making their purchase choices.'

Backlash? Hoteliers in the resorts of Alcudia and Can Picafort on Mallorca have actually reported a depression of approximately 20 percent in hotel bookings year-on-year. Spain has actually seen anti-tourism marches throughout the mainland and popular islands this year

And another protest remains in the pipeline, with Mallorca's capital, Palma, the area for another huge protest on June 15th, with 60 organisations set to march (Pictured: demonstrations on Mallorca on May 25th)

The hoteliers association kept that numbers are merely returning to normal levels following a 'champagne effect', when individuals started travelling again following the end of the pandemic.

The demonstration in Palma on June 15th will be led by project group 'Menys Turisme, Mes Vida' (Less tourism, more life), which claims that the everyday life of residents has actually ended up being 'unbearable' thanks to foreign holidaymakers.

They have implicated both the Balearic Islands' government of ignoring the pleas for extreme changes in their existing tourism model.

The platform is asking the island's residents to take to the streets to demand a change in the economic design and what they describe as 'touristification.'

This will be the third significant protest of its kind but the activists say they are getting no place regardless of calls to clampdown on tourists.

The presentation in Palma will be held all at once with similar marches in Ibiza, Barcelona, Donosti and other significant Spanish cities.

'We mean the right to a dignified life and to demand an end to touristification', said Jaume Pujol, spokesman for Menys Turisme, Més Vida.

The group today also criticised the city government, accusing them of promoting policies that have exacerbated the mass tourism crisis.

The June 15th demonstration will be led by campaign group 'Menys Turisme, Mes Vida' (Less tourist, more life), which claims that the daily life of locals has actually ended up being 'intolerable' thanks to foreign holidaymakers. Pictured: Campaigners announcing the demonstration

'Mallorca is not for sale' checks out a demonstration banner held by a girl in a march kept in April against housing rates and the impact of tourism on the residents of the Mallorca

They likewise cautioned that, with the start of the traveler season, 'excruciating circumstances' are currently being repeated on the island, including road closures due to tourist events and genera; saturation of public areas and markets.

Menys Turisme, Mes Vida also argued that their island is 'not for sale' which 'it is urgent to put limitations' on a tourist design that they consider significantly devastating.

It comes a month after 10s of countless furious Spaniards required to the streets across the nation to require an option to the cost of living crisis they say has been intensified by tourism.

The demonstrations on April fifth took location throughout major Spanish towns and cities consisting of Madrid, Barcelona, Malaga and Palma.

According to organizers, 30,000 individuals required to the streets of Malaga - a seaside town in the south of Spain - as they demanded solutions to the housing crisis, with banners checking out: 'Houses for the individuals of Málaga. Hotels for travelers, budget-friendly leas.'

But authorities reported that around 5,000 demonstrators took part in the Malaga march.

Residents were photographed holding banners with the slogan: 'Houses for individuals of Málaga. Hotels for travelers'.

Some also hung posters from their terraces and windows with messages stating: 'Housing is a right, not a service'.

The demonstration will be led by campaign group 'Menys Turisme, Mes Vida' (Less tourist, more life), which declares that the everyday life of residents has actually ended up being 'intolerable' thanks to foreign holidaymakers. Pictured: Campaigners today revealing the demonstration next month

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Meanwhile in Madrid, around 15,000 individuals gathered in the capital's neighbourhood of Atocha and marched towards Plaza de Espana yelling slogans like: 'Landlords are thieves' and 'Madrid will be the burial place of leasings'.

Angry tenants indicated circumstances of worldwide hedge funds purchasing up residential or commercial properties, frequently with the goal of leasing them to foreign travelers.

The question has become so politically charged that Barcelona's local government pledged last year to phase out all its 10,000 permits for short-term rentals, a lot of them advertised on platforms like Airbnb, by 2028.

Marchers in Madrid last month shouted 'Get Airbnb out of our communities' and held up indications versus short-term rentals.

'No more leaving our neighborhoods, our homes, and even our cities every five or seven years,' stated Valeria Racu, spokesperson for the Madrid renters' union, in a declaration at the start of the demonstration.

'We're getting in touch with the half-million households whose contracts end in 2025 to stay at home and resist,' she added.
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Last month, British holidaymakers were left trembling in hotels as protesters stormed the streets of the Canary Islands.

Residents campaigning versus over-tourism released presentations across Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Ela Hierro, La Palma, La Gomera, and Lanzarote.