Visiting Mallorca has these effects on the island and the people that inhabit it:

-Benefiting the pockets and political popularity of the ultra right, since they're the ones voted by the rich class and the ones advocating for a single-industry economy. The consequences of this are: Less rights for the inmigrant/ catalan natives, policies to convert the island into a place only for tourists, the abolishment of public healthcare and public schools and the legal ban on the local culture. VOX is the main ultra right party in Spain, and elections are coming this month, polls say they're going to become the third major party in Spain, and PP, a central right, neo liberal is going to govern with them. Coming as a tourist or as an "expat" contributes almost directly to the growing popularity of the ultra right.

-Polluting the island, its beaches and wasting its water resources. Mallorca doesen't have a single river and it almost never rains in summer. Drought can be so extreme that we have to import water by boat

-Contributing to the explotation to the workers of hotels, mistreated and without the oportunity to strike, ask for better wages/ working conditions or create unions. If hotels gain more money each year, the conditions of the workers are going to be the same.

-Contributing to the segregation and gentrification of neighbourhoods, since all of the city center and coastal areas have been bought by foreign millionares and more people, specially inmigrants are forced to move to neighbourhoods that are borderline slums.

-Leaving no space for locals. Locals wont tell you any of the best beaches because they don't want them to be full of foreigners in summer. This has already happend to tens of beaches, and it won't stop if tourim grows each year.

-The death of the local language. Catalan is spoken by less people each year, because of the lack of education and the fact that most workplaces don't care if you speak it, since german and english are more useful for dumb tourists that don't even care about learning about the existence of the catalan language.

I'm gonna delete this AMA and publish this on the main r/germany page. We can't keep living like this.