Brits up and down the country are being urged to avoid a “collapsing” Majorca and the Canary Islands.
Travel guides are advising holidaymakers to avoid popular tourist destinations in 2025 as they are struggling “under the burden of their own prominence.”
As a result, according to Fodor, these places can become “prohibitively expensive, homogenized, or even destroyed”, which ultimately doesn’t result in a “happy” travel experience.
Every year, Fodor publishes a ‘Not List’ highlighting “destinations suffering from untenable popularity.” This list includes a variety of European hotspots that were plagued with anti-tourism protests last year, and many have even inflicted new rules on holidaymakers.
Fodor told Yahoo News: “These locations are popular for good reason—they are stunning, intriguing, and culturally significant.
“However, some of these highly coveted tourist spots are collapsing under the burden of their own prominence.”
In particular Fodor highlights Barcelona, Majorca and the Canary Islands as places to avoid this year when picking your next holiday desintation.
Throughout much of 2024, anti-tourism protestors staged massive demonstrations across the Canary Islands and mainland Spain as they demanded an urgent change to the current tourism model, which was affecting the lives of locals.
In Gran Canaria, hundreds of people assembled in Maspalomas in October. In Tenerife’s Playa de las Americas, 2,000 activists stormed Troya Beach, surrounding startled British tourists in their swimwear while chanting: “This beach is ours.” holding signs that read: “Go, Home Tourists.”
In Tenerife’s Playa de las Americas, 2,000 activists stormed Troya Beach, surrounding startled British tourists in their swimwear while chanting, “This beach is ours.”
During the October protests across the Canary Islands a reported 10,000 demonstrators took part, chanting slogans like “The Canary Islands are not for sale” and “we are foreigners in our land”.
And in Barcelona, tourists were squirted with water pistols as angry protesters called for visitors to go home.
In July 2024, some 2,800 protesters attended a huge march, calling for a new economic approach that would dramatically reduce tourist numbers in the capital of the Catalonia region.