Vintage photos of Magaluf reveal Brits have been causing mayhem in the Spanish resort for 40 years
The rise of the all-inclusive holiday in the late 1900s saw Magaluf turn into a cheap booze break for young Brits
BADLY-behaved tourists have been causing chaos in Magaluf this summer, despite huge efforts by locals to crack down on anti-social behaviour.
As the summer season heats up, Brits have been pictured streaking along local streets, fighting, drug taking and even having sex in public.
Hotels are now threatening to kick out troublemakers and police have adopted a zero-tolerance on loutish behaviour like public urination.
Calvia Council recently revealed a list of 64 banned activities including public boozing and climbing trees and buildings — threatening fines of up to £2,600 for breaches.
Locals are fed up of the thousands of tourists that descend on their hometown every summer, attracted by cheap package holidays and the promise of even cheaper booze.
Many complain that they hardly even remember the resort before it became a magnet for party-loving Brits and earned the nickname Shagaluf..
In the 1950s, when the first big hotels were built around Calvia beach, holidaymakers would be treated to black tie cocktail receptions on the sand.
But then the package holiday market arrived in the 1960s and 70s, sparking a development boom that led to ever cheaper hotels and apartments.
Then in the late 1980s and early 90s, Spain began to see competition from the Eastern Mediterranean.
Combined with the rise of the all-inclusive holiday, process began to drop further and further, turning Magaluf into cheap booze break location for young Brits.
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Vintage pictures of Magaluf in the 80s, 90s, and 00s show that the resort has been a party hot spot for decades.
Young men in fancy dress and local police stationed outside British pubs were a common sight a long ago at the late Eighties.
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But the locals have finally had enough and are demanding ever-increasing restrictions to make the destination less attractive to young tourists.
Despite recent efforts to appeal to a more sophisticated holidaymaker, many of the hotels and bars in the resort continue to market themselves to stag and hen dos, or school leavers, with cheap alcohol offers and club nights though.
