The campaign group said it would “intensify” its actions in response to an announcement of a billion-euro investment into the tourist sector, the rise of real estate and luxury tourism speculation while the housing crisis continues to worsen.
Speaking to Reuters last year amid the large-scale protests, Pere Joan Femenia, of Menys Turisme, Més Vida, said that mass tourism was making it difficult for local people to afford to live on their own island.
The group was behind a large anti-tourist protest that filled the streets in Palma de Mallorca last summer against skyrocketing housing prices in the wake of a tourist boom on the popular holiday island.
A Spanish group campaigning against overtourism has called on its members to “regroup” and “redouble” its efforts against the impact the tourist industry has on island residents.
“While the tourist lobby continues to get rich and prices skyrocket, wages are stagnant and the living conditions of the working class continue to become more precarious,” the group continued.
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