ADVICE
FOR ALL TOURISTS IN MALLORCA
Tourist, you are probably here after a long year of hard work, taking a
rest or looking for fun in an exotic place in which you can forgetting about
the daily responsibilities as usually promised by holidays packages and
publicity. However let you take a minute to reflect of reflexion about the
serious consequences that your visit, together with the visits of millions of
people as like you every year, generates in Mallorca, in their natural
environment and their social arrangement situation. It is time to break the big
tale of the harmless tourism of amazing golden, sandy beaches, just here for
the watch view and enjoyment of the visitor, the happy villagers gratefully
offering their services for an irresistible fee or the funny innocent night
activity with a sexual reward.
From massive urbanization of the coasts and proliferation of transport
infrastructures with high environmental impacts, to the disappearance of
traditional activities and local culture, passing through a huge consumption of
resources and their related waste generation, industrial mass tourism is far
away from the “innocent pleasure in which all people win” promoted by
governments propaganda and tourism lobbies publicity. On the contrary, these
damaging activities controlled by transnational tour operators, big hotel
chains, property speculation agencies and high-level public office which
conform the head of the tourism industry are at the core of an unrelenting
process of dispossession in which common spaces in the island together with the
more basic natural resources (such as water) are progressively privatized,
people displaced from their residences due to gentrification processes and
temporal workers exploited in worsening poor conditions by the service
industry. This is the real face of tourism in Mallorca: dependence, spoil damage
and social inequalities. Stopping this scheduled destruction requires an active
international solidarity.
Don't collaborate with the tourism industry!
Stop destruction and spoil damage of to Mallorca!
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