Magaluf looks empty as Brits ‘shun hols hotspot because they are tired of being demonised' while resort cleans up image
MAGALUF is looking unusually bare as Brits shunned the popular holiday spot after feeling "tired of being demonised".
Dozens of beach sunbeds lay empty as the usual UK
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Deck chairs lay empty in the Spanish resort
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Restaurants that were once filled with boozing Brits appeared bare
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Figures published last week showed Benidorm's leading visitors were Brits and its average hotel occupancy rate had reached almost 85 per cent in May.
Meanwhile, pictures of the Spanish resort showed
Deck chairs that would previously have been filled with boozing Brits sat empty, whilst
The barren resort is a positive change for many locals, who despaired at the "touristification" of their town.
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They're welcoming instead a new wave of tourists hailing from different
Nightclub boss, Migue Perez-Masra, told local press that Playa de Palma, near the Majorcan capital, has seen a sharp increase in German tourists.
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Once crowd-stricken streets now seemed visibly empty
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The barren resort is a positive change for many locals
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Magaluf was branded a lawless party resort
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He claimed young Brits are turning their backs on Magaluf after feeling 'demonized" by locals.
The area is now seeing more and more French and Italian visitors too.
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Attempts to clean up the resort's image come as Magaluf was branded a lawless party resort after a shocking sex video emerged in June 2014 showing a British tourist performing sex acts on 24 men in a bar.
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The 18-year-old at the centre of the viral footage was reportedly duped into performing the sex acts for what she thought was a free break that turned out to be a cocktail named 'Holiday'.
At the time, Spanish politician Jose Ramon Bauza, branded Punta Ballena - Magaluf's strip - as '500 metres of shame'.
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The bar was ordered to close for a year whilst authorities cracked the whip on unruly behaviour.
Fines of up to £50,000 were introduced for holidaymakers caught leaping off their hotel balconies, whilst limits were set on the amount of alcohol served at all-inclusive hotels.
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Further restrictions in Spanish party resorts were introduced last year.
In parts of Majorca and Ibiza, tourists can be fined up to £1,300 for drinking on the streets and shops are now only allowed to sell alcohol at certain times.
Britain's then-Ambassador to Spain Hugh Elliott urged holidaymakers in the Majorcan party resort to 'show responsibility' and remember they were "guests" in Spain.
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The demo has been organised by activist organisation Menys Turisme, Mes Vida, with 60 groups already pledging to take part.
Protestors from other cities including
A Menys Turisme, Mes Vida spokesman said last week: 'We will demonstrate for the right to a decent life and to demand the brakes are put on the touristification of this island.'
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Many locals lamented at the loss of their town to boozing Brits
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Residents said they're welcoming in a new stream of tourists from Europe
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Restrictions in Spanish party resorts were introduced last year
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