Businesses in Magaluf are worried about the lack of holidaymakers in the party city in the lead-up to the busy holiday season.
Photos show Magaluf,one of Majorca's busiest cities,is still half-empty days before tourists are meant to be flooding its streets,bringing with them much-needed spending money.
The Majorca Daily Bulletin reported that businesses are anxious about whether enough tourists will come to the island.
Some said that the busy holiday season hasn't yet started,and that some insist the city is busy at the weekends.
But many have blames the surge in anti-tourism protests the island has seen in recent weeks.
Swathes of white sand,normally covered by towels,bags and beach bodies,can be seen reflecting the harsh Spanish sun
One photo showed at most a dozen people meandering down a long stretch of the beach.
The photos showing Magaluf as a ghost town come as protestors began to make preparations to Majorca's beaches in a new stand over mass tourism to 'squeeze' out foreign tourists.
Organisers of Saturday's march in Palma involving around 15,000 people,in which some foreign holidaymakers were heckled,promised afterwards: 'This is just the start of things.'
And today a group calling itself Mallorca Platja Tour - Majorca Beach Tour in Catalan - started an online campaign urging locals to 'occupy' the island's beaches.
A first meeting is being organised for this Saturday to promote a 'big event' on June 16 with the slogan: 'We fill the beach with Majorcans.'
The latest campaign appears to have been triggered by the comments of Manuela Canadas,spokesman for far-right wing party Vox in the Balearic Islands' regional parliament.
She responded to Saturday's protest by saying: 'I understand the discontent but us Mallorcans,who live directly or indirectly from tourism,cannot expect to go to the beach in July and August like we did years ago.'
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