‘Majorca would collapse!’ Adam Brooks hits back at anti-tourist zealots as holidaymakers issued warning: ‘Horrifying’

Holidaymakers have been warned to brace themselves for potential animosity from locals who feel they are being priced out of their home towns by visitors driving up costs.

Brooks says all holidaymakers are being tarred with the same brush as a select minority of troublesome Britons.

“I love Majorca, it feels like a second home to me, there are millions of Britons who come here and don’t get blind drunk”, he said.

“You will get a few people who will come here and drink too much, you have to remember that people from other countries do the same.

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“We do get a bad name but I think it’s only down to a small area. A lot of people come to this area.

“If they stopped coming here, Majorca would collapse. That is from taxi drivers, car hire firms, restaurants, they rely really on our tourism and to blanket everyone together because of a few youngsters in Magaluf is really unfair.

“These protesters need to realise that a lot of Majorcans are horrified by these protests and know their businesses would go under without these tourists.”

He added: “If we stop coming here, what are these people going to work as?

“It would really go downhill. Some nights, me and my family don’t go out, but we would go to the supermarket or get a taxi somewhere, that is still supporting the local economy.

“It’s not just about going to bars and restaurants. A lot of people go to the tourist attractions and museums.

“It’s not just about people coming here to get blind drunk, that’s a select few.”

Ex-Labour adviser Stella Tsantekidou, who grew up in Greece, offered a counter view by saying Britons are often culpable for poor behaviour abroad.

“Every year, we are used to turning on the news in the summer and seeing British people getting blackout drunk”, she said.

“It’s literally every single day. A lot of British people see going on holidays as a chance to indulge the worst of British culture.

“You guys have a taste for alcohol that surpasses other cultures.”

Pere Joan Femenia, of Menys Turisme, Mas Vida (Less Tourism, More Life), which organised Sunday’s rally, said he wants less tourists on the land.

"Mass tourism is making it difficult for local people who cannot afford to live on their own island because tourist flats push up prices. Tourists fill up beaches and put a strain on public services in the summer," he said.

"We want to cut mass tourism and to ban non-residents from buying houses which are just used for a few months a year or for speculation."