Angry Spanish residents have had enough of British tourists stealing their beach spots, so have put up fake signs warning beachgoers of jellyfish and falling rocks to deter them.
Some of the fake signs placed near beaches in Majorca read “beware of dangerous jellyfish”, whilst others warn of falling rocks nearby.
One of the bogus signs tells beachgoers that it takes almost three hours to walk to a beach, when the beach is only 100 yards away.
The fake posters often have small print written in Catalan, so those who speak the language know that the warnings are not real.
Most signs have a small print in Catalan, warning the locals that the signs are fake
|One explains: “Open beach. Not to jellyfish nor foreigners.”
Another reads: “Come in. The danger is not of a landslide, it is of overcrowding”.
The hoax signs are the work of protest group Caterva, an anti-capitalist organisation.
Caterva wrote on social media: “These days we carried out a denunciation action against the #massificació tourist in the coves of #Manacor.
“With a bit of humor, we've put up a few posters that you can see in the photos. From Cala Morlanda to Cala Bota.”
The group added: “The usurpation of the coves is just another expression of how capitalism uses an economic activity like tourism, taken to the extreme, to dry the territory for free and to extract the maximum surplus value from the workers.”
More than 2.3 million Brits head to Majora each year, with the average visitor spending £950 there.
Yet despite this, tourism bosses have said they’re fed up with overcrowding.
Lucia Escribano, director of tourism, told The Sun last year: “We are not interested in promoting the island in summer.
“We are limiting the number of beds on the island.
“We want quality not quantity.”
Caterva’s fight against beach-hogging tourists is not the only instance of jaded locals fighting back against British holiday makers this summer.
In Greece, locals declared a sunbed war on beloved British holiday hotspots, after an influx of tourists left their beaches packed.
TROUBLE WITH TOURISTS:
Majorca is visited by more than 2.3million Brits every year
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A campaign was launched called the ‘Towel Movement’, which pledged to fight against the “abusive occupation” of the beaches.
In Costa del Sol, Spain, one hotel had a referee who would blow the whistle when beachgoers were allowed to start running to secure a spot.
Meanwhile in Tenerife, a video circulated on TikTok of one holidaymaker bagging five sun loungers by sprinting through sun beds.
Catera recently came to public attention when they criticised Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal who owns a restaurant and tourism business on the island.
They said in a statement: “Capitalism uses tourism to the extreme to dry out the territory and extract the maximum surplus value from workers.
“There are culprits and it is necessary to name them, such as the hoteliers or the Rafael Nadals who are as complicit as the Balearic Government.”