UK tourists warned 'best not go there' after Majorca locals 'flee to mainland'

The Balearic Island has been dogged by overtourism protests and demonstrations, with UK tourists flying out to the European Union holiday hotspot firmly in their crosshairs.

Majorca has issued a warning over overtourism - as locals begin to "flee to the mainland". The Balearic Island has been dogged by overtourism protests and demonstrations, with UK tourists flying out to the European Union holiday hotspot firmly in their crosshairs.

In a new video posted by The Banc del Temps de Sencelles, locals can be seen marching through Majorca's old town holding 'For Sale' signs. They can be heard saying: "Over a year ago we shouted 'Majorca is not for sale. We weren’t alone'.

"But it hasn’t changed anything. In fact, things have gotten worse. Prices don’t stop going up. No one is doing anything to save us. We don’t want anyone else to be forced to move.

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"We can’t accept this. We repeat...enough is enough! If not, in the end no one will be left." One said: "In my son’s class, three families have already moved to the mainland."

Another resident chipped in: "The only thing I can do is watch and wait. Wait until it gets me too." A YouTube description of the clip adds: "A cry for help from the center of the island. The Sencelles-based citizen initiative "Banc de Temps," which last year launched protests against the housing shortage and mass tourism in Mallorca with a viral video, published another one last Monday along the same lines and with a desperate message: things have gotten much worse in the island's real estate market."

In response, a Brit sniped: "So they were happy to take tourist and ex pats money for years but now they are finding that the young are getting to the property purchasing age there is not houses around to buy as greedy locals have out priced themselves with their greed, all tourists should stop going to these places and leave the locals to get on with their lives the way they want with businesses closing and extra unemployment, would not be long before the locals are crying out for visitors"

"Best no tourist goes there and we can all enjoy watching them collapse economically," a second said.