UK tourist in Majorca 'bites back' calling island 'non tourist friendly'

Wales Online

09-05-2025

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A UK tourist has slammed the island of Majorca for being too "expensive" and "non-tourist friendly" in a letter written to a local Spanish publication.
Edward Fox, a regular holidaymaker in the Spanish islands, hit out at the island following the recent string of anti-tourism protests which have swept much of Spain, including the Balearic Islands, and the Canary Islands.
Demonstrations from local people have urged tourists to "go home," with some protests even reported to have grown violent, as one resident held up a sign threatening to "Kill a Tourist" in Tenerife, according to The Mirror.
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In response, Edward, who often visits Majorca for up to nine weeks at a time, outlined his feelings over the continued anti-tourism marches in a brutal letter written to the Majorca Daily Bulletin, a Spanish news site for English readers.
According to the publication, the Brit's "damning" letter surrounds the protests which occurred in Soller, Majorca recently.
Edward explained how he has visited Majorca for 30 years and it has since become "unaffordable" for most British tourists.
He said: "Over the last five or six years of me coming to Mallorca I have noticed a drastic increase in not only hotel/apartment accommodation prices but also the increase in food, drink , restaurant prices which is not reflected in the global inflation increases.
"It is not in a real comparison to these increases, also the increase of the ' tourist tax' up to approx €4 per person per night is subject to an additional 10 per cent tax ( proposed ) is incredible and unaffordable for most British tourists coming to Mallorca."
Edward added he believed the price hikes in Majorca had contributed to the island "losing out to South East Asian countries," for example, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines and Malaysia.
He said: "I would say in South Asian countries it is much cheaper by as much at 60-70 per cent per night, and also a higher standard in South Asian countries, which are an emerging tourist market."
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Rounding off his letter, the holidaymaker left the bulletin with a bold comment, stating "us tourists do bite back, and me personally and many hundreds of thousands of tourists have bitten back."
The full section read: 'So go ahead Mallorca, bite the hand that has come to this island, put so much money into your tourism, infrastructure, government, hoteliers pockets etc etc for the best part of 40 years.
"Us tourists do bite back, and me personally and many hundreds of thousands of tourists have bitten back.
"As a seasoned traveller to Mallorca it is getting far to expensive and non tourist friendly and every thing is so not worth visiting or holidaying in this island until your Balearic Government and the people of Mallorca realise this.'
During the last protest on the island, it was reported by the Majorca Daily Bulletin that some holidaymakers and expats confronted residents wearing shirts with the word "guiris" on, with some non-Spanish residents calling the word racist.
The word is used to described English-speaking foreigners, but according to The Mirror, that has slowly expanded to include northern European tourists as a whole.