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An anti-tourist protest planned for next month aims to bring the holiday island of Mallorca to a halt here to explain the root of the issue and how it could affect your holiday travel correspondent with the London Independent, Simon Calder.

Simon, always lovely to speak to you.

So this big protest is planned for 7pm on July 26th, but we're already seeing smaller sort of protests in the run-up to this big event.

Can you tell me about those?

Yeah, I'm reading about messages saying stop tourism SOS that have been painted onto the tarmac on the roads between some of the really popular towns, Day and Solaire.

Yeah, and it's interesting to read part of the protest is actually involving some of the lockboxes, which so many of us who've used Airbnb will be familiar with, that the protesters or some individuals are actually gluing shut these lockboxes.

So if you arrive at this accommodation, you won't be able to access your keys.

Other than that particular incident or incidents, are tourists or should tourist assignments be fearful of any real direct backlash?