A2 Travel & Tourism - Case Study: Majorca

Here are some key notes I made whilst watching a video on the impacts of tourism in Majorca:

• main interests for tourist = beaches, clubbing, largely materialistic and not aware of the culture
• has been described as the package holiday capital of Europe
• climate appeal
• extremely busy with 11 million visiting each year
• population of only 700,000
• too much concrete - developments of buildings, houses, villas etc. show no consideration for the environment e.g. coastlines
• common problem of traffic jams and congestion, enhanced by lack of public transport and availability of cheap car rentals
• the amount of waste build up increases by 10-15% each year
• shortage of water supplies - is imported from the mainland
• it has the highest rate of car ownership per person
• increase in demand for new houses
• 250,000 Germans planning to buy second houses
• property prices have increased by 30% making it hard for locals to purchase property
• large number of developments have been made using black money (unauthorized)
• there are clear hostile feelings between locals and tourists
• 30,000 foreign residents living here permanently - not all of them feel isolated by the host population
• 85% of income is through tourism - extremely highly dependent
• tourism has destroyed farming and agricultural labour which used to be the main source of income
• 2& of their GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is accounted for through culture
• there is a lack of economic…