Meet Spain’s 'Male Greta Thunberg' Leading Anti‑Tourism Protests

Mass anti-tourism demonstrators began to erupt across Spain last year, amid concerns holidaymakers were driving rising costs and job insecurity.

Jaume's interest in protesting began at a young age when his trade unionist granddad took him on marches.

And while his parents are "proud," Jaume revealed to Diario de Mallorca how they're also scared for him.

The march in Palma followed a similar string of incidents in Barcelona, where an anti-tourist mob surrounded a hotel and shot at holidaymakers with water pistols.

Congregating outside the hotel, the group launched flares and held placards claiming tourism was robbing them of their futures.

Staff at a nearby hotel were seen trying to break up the crowds and shouting at protesters to move away.

Police stepped in before protesters could reach the famous tourist hot-spot la Sagrada Familia, avoiding potential clashes between holidaymakers and locals.

Shouts of ‘Tourists Go Home’ and ‘One More Tourist, One Less Local’ could be heard as activists marched through the streets.

They were also heard shouting: ‘This tourism is terrorism.’

City police said only 600 people had taken part, far less than the 8,000 who took part in the protest in Palma.

Other marches took place in the Basque city of San Sebastian, several cities in Italy and in Lisbon as part of a co-ordinated series of street protests in southern Europe.