Eleven seaside restaurants on the Spanish island of Mallorca have set up a dress code for customers. Their goal is to change what he describes as a wave of antisocial behavior of drunken tourists.
In these restaurants, most of which are in Playa de Palma, people without t-shirts or wearing football jerseys will no longer be allowed, said Juan Miguel Ferrer from Palma Beach.
"What we're trying to communicate, in a way, is the idea that to get in here you have to take a shower or change your clothes," he added. "You will not come here in beachwear or come straight after drinking on the streets."
The decision was prompted by the influx of seemingly more interested tourists to drink than to explore the local gastronomy or charms of the island, he said. "Since May 10, we have faced the arrival of large groups of tourists who just want to get drunk on the street, by the sea or even on the beach."
He described the situation as worse than in the years before the pandemic, calling it an "unfortunate reality".
