Sustainable tourism versus tourism depredation. Balearic Islands, Spain

The present research tries to explain the reality of the double model of tourism existing in the Islas Baleares (Spain): on the one hand, sustainable tourism, ecotourism, cultural and historical tourism; on the other, massified tourism, tourism based on nightlife that generates a large number of problems and negative side effects, having Mallorca town of Calvin as epicenter. Bearing in mind that the Islas Baleares tourism sector is facing a period of great uncertainty and crisis as a result of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the confinement decreed by the Spanish government for approximately three months, the challenges, problems, and issues of the activity at present place the sector at a true turning point.