On Friday, the Menys Turisme Més Vida (Less Tourism, More Life) platform will hold an assembly to plan actions in light of the perceived failure of the Balearic Government's sustainability pact and measures to tackle tourist overcrowding.
A press release announcing the meeting states that "the constant increase in overtourism in Mallorca can only be confronted through grassroots organisation". Menys Turisme Més Vida comprises groups in the island's municipalities as well as established organisations such as the environmentalists GOB.
Margalida Ramis of GOB says that a call for protests and other actions is justified given the forecast of a new record for tourist arrivals this summer and the belief that the government "has not done anything and will not do anything".
Ramis argues that no real containment measures have been taken, because there is no genuine political will to do so. "For the government, the problem is not the excess of tourism, but rather that people are upset by it." The government's talk about progress on reducing seasonality is based on a growth of tourism in the low season and a supposed containment of arrivals in the summer that is not actually happening.
"Now they say that if arrivals during peak season aren't growing as much, it's because of the measures they've taken, but they haven't done anything that could actually have an impact." Ramis points out that tourist numbers in the summer have continued to grow steadily over the last two years, albeit at a slower pace because the margin for growth is smaller during the peak period. "There is no intention whatsoever to contain or reduce the numbers."
On Tuesday, parliament rejected a motion presented by the main opposition party PSOE for the maximum number of tourists in the Balearics to be set at 17.8 million per year. This was the total in 2023 and one which President Prohens herself said was excessive. In 2025, there were over 19 million tourists.
GOB was one of the organisations which walked away from the sustainability pact. The Forum for Civil Society was another, stating that the pact was "technocratic, lacked participation, and had excessive representation from the tourism business sector at the expense of civil society". These organisations plus political parties on the left have said they have no intention of re-joining the pact unless changes to its procedures and organisation are made.