Overview

• This week’s demonstrations drew 600–800 participants in Barcelona and approximately 8,000 in Palma de Mallorca—turnouts lower than protests last year.
• In Ibiza campaigners pointed to drought-driven water cuts for residents while luxury hotels continued pool-fill operations, and in Venice protesters compared the city’s focus on ATMs to tourism profit extraction.
• Organizers insisted their grievance lies not with holidaymakers but with housing speculators, worker exploitation and the unchecked ‘touristification’ of their cities.
• Majorca’s hoteliers, backed by the CAEB business association, labeled the protests illegitimate and cautioned that tourist avoidance could threaten the local economy.
• Reports of placards reading ‘Reclaim the Beach’ on Paros and graffiti urging ‘tourists go home’ suggest Greece may soon see similar anti-tourism actions, though experts say any large-scale revolt remains speculative.