'I'm a Majorca restaurant boss - here's why the tourism protesters are delusional'

Anti-tourist protesters take to the streets in Barcelona (Image: Getty) A Majorca restaurant owner told the Express that without tourism the island "would lose everything", and described protesters as "delusional". Mariusz Szymecki runs a thriving catering business in Palma with his partners Edgar Lagassi and Andrius Kulbokas, that consists of six restaurants under the chain Five Senses Collection . Originally from Poland, Brazil and Lithuania respectively, they worked for over twenty years in London, before moving to Palma in 2019.

They opened their first restaurant days before the Covid lockdown in March 2019, yet managed to survive and thrive despite receiving no government subsidies during the pandemic. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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