The variety of members far exceeded expectations, wrote the newspaper “Diario de Mallorca”. Folks got here from all components of the island, it mentioned. Nonetheless, an estimate of the variety of members was not but out there.
One other slogan of the protest was “Mallorca shouldn’t be on the market!” The rally was referred to as by the group “Banc de Temps de Sencelles”, which blames the ever-increasing variety of guests and trip properties for the housing scarcity on Mallorca and for the “destruction” of the Spanish Mediterranean island.
The demonstrators, together with many households with youngsters, schoolchildren and college students in addition to pensioners, chanted slogans corresponding to “Those that love Mallorca do not destroy it” as they marched alongside the Passeig del Born promenade. There have been additionally many posters with slogans corresponding to “In the event that they deny us a roof, they deny us a future.” Commerce unions, environmental teams and varied residents’ initiatives joined the protest march.
The rally was impressed by the restaurant collapse on Thursday night in Ballermann. 4 individuals died within the accident, together with two younger ladies from Germany. Residents of Playa de Palma, which is especially visited by German vacationers, are satisfied that lots of the buildings within the space should not appropriate for mass tourism.
Tourism is important for the island’s economic system. The trade accounts for 45 p.c of Mallorca’s financial output. However there may be now hardly anybody who questions the necessity to restrict the variety of guests.
