With summer holidays starting to be booked, many Britons have said they will be boycotting Spain after the anti-tourist protests that have been seen across the country.
To go with these protests, the country has said it will be introducing a series of new measures impacting tourists such as the banning of tourist rentals and holidaymakers having to provide 31 more pieces of information before arrival.
The additional information includes further details on phone numbers, home and email addresses and Britons being asked about their relationship with their children and group size.
Anti-tourist protests have also taken over Spain in the last few months, with locals calling for more affordable housing, as prices have been driven up by an increase in purchasing properties for holiday rentals.
Throughout 2024, a large number of anti-tourism protests swooped across Spain
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Holidaymakers were recently shocked too by graffiti reading “kill a tourist” spotted in Tenerife. Tourists were also seen carrying signs reading statements such as “Tourists go home, SOS residents.”
GB News readers have been reacting to the ongoing anti-tourism protests and measures put in place across the country.
One user said: “It is a rather simple solution. Boycott holidays to Spain. They don’t want the revenue that comes from the UK holidaymakers.”
Another commenter said: “I will never go to Spain again,” and one more said: “They need to be careful what they wish for.”
A fourth said they had noticed that it had been very busy in Spain with tourists but accused Mallorca of trying to limit the numbers.
“I live in Mallorca and honestly, it’s never been busier, but the trend is towards the very big spenders. A very small minority are calling for tourism to be capped, and holiday lets are making housing unaffordable,” said the commenter.
“The aim of the regional government is to attempt to cap numbers, and attract bigger spenders, which appears to be working.”
One other user said: “Not a hard choice is it? Spend thousands to go where you are not welcome or choose a more friendly destination?”
Britons have vowed to boycott Spain this upcoming summer
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Despite these plans to abandon Spain across the upcoming summer, Britons did dominate the spending their last year.
They led the way as the top spender for tourists visiting Spain with 12.6 million British tourists arriving up to the month of August 2024.
Spending by British holidaymakers increased by 16 per cent, according to the data presented at the fourth Turespaña Convention in Tenerife.
Turespaña’s advisor in London, Manuel Butler, said: “There is a growing tendency to book late and to travel in the mid-season, the months of October and November, which favours deseasonalisation.”
