'Go Home Tourist' was scrawled in English over a wall in Nou Llevant, MallorcaFurious locals have demanded that British holidaymakers 'go home' as anti-tourist graffiti has appeared in another Spanish holiday hot spot.
Residents in Mallorca are echoing some of the same complaints that protestors in the Canary Islands have been making, claiming that the boom in short-term holiday rentals is driving up housing costs for locals. The thousands of demonstrators in Tenerife joined the protests under the slogan: 'The Canary Islands have a limit'
One Spanish woman interviewed under a fictitious name in a Majorcan paper last year complained it was difficult to communicate with neighbours because most only spoke German and the majority of apartments where she lived were being purchased as holiday homes or rental investment properties. Campaigners have been quick to distance themselves from anti-tourist graffiti which appeared on walls and benches in and around Palm Mar in southern Tenerife at the start of the month
Residents in the Balearics Islands which include Majorca and Ibiza showed their support for the Canary Islands protesters on Saturday who took to the streets in their thousands, although their demos were much smaller. In an apparent UK backlash, a response left in English on a wall next to a 'Tourists go home' message said: 'F**k off, we pay your wages.'
He said last Friday that while 'ecotax is not included in the government program' currently, it is 'true' that the government is 'willing to discuss it'. Anti-Tourist graffiti scrawled on walls in the beach resort of Palm-Mar in the South of the Island of Tenerife