MADRID – Overtourism is driving Ibiza to the point of collapse as British holidaymakers drive up housing prices and strain natural resources like water, a new book claims.

The White Island, which was once a hippy paradise, has become so swamped by tourists that it is at the “ground zero” of overcrowding in holiday destinations in Europe , the author Joan Luis Ferrrer, a journalist and writer who has lived on the island all his life, says.

Last year, 3.27 million tourists arrived in Ibiza , according to data from IBESTAT, a statistics institute run by the Balearic government. This was up from three million visitors in 2019 and 2.4 million in 2014. New Feature

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