Graffiti reading “kill a tourist” was spray-painted on a wall in Manacor, on the Spanish island of Majorca, prompting denunciation from some local officials.

Manacor is the second-largest municipality on the Mediterranean island, the largest of the Balearic Islands, and attracts tourists coming both for the beaches and for two sets of caves in the town of Porto Cristo located within the municipality.

The Popular Party, a right-wing party that sits in opposition on the Manacor city council, denounced the graffiti and the left-wing coalition governing Manacor.

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While it is in opposition in Manacor, it is the governing party in the Balearic Islands Parliament with 25 of 59 seats.

The party “strongly rejects these vandalism actions and their content” and called on the Manacor city council to “collaborate to clean them immediately, even though they are located in privately owned spaces,” according to a Catalan-language press release translated with computer assistance by The Washington Times.

The council’s Popular Party spokesperson Maria Antonia Sanso said that “the PP understands the growing social unrest towards mass tourism, but this behavior is totally unjustified,” and called out “eight years of absolute lack of tourism management on the part of the left.”

Anti-tourist sentiment has been seen in other parts of Spain, including on the Balearic Islands, which was the country’s second-most popular tourist destination last year with 14.4 million visitors, according to Reuters news agency.

On Saturday, the environmentalist Balearic Ornithology and Nature Defense Group organized 250 people to occupy all the parking spaces at a beach in Cala en Turqueta, Spain, thereby blocking tourists from visiting.

The group said that the beach gets two or three times the number of visitors it should, that the island of Menorca sees 30% more car traffic than it can handle each year, and that landlords buying property to use as vacation rentals makes finding housing difficult for locals.

Anti-tourism protests in Majorca’s capital Palma on July 21 drew about 10,000 people, according to Reuters.

“We want to cut mass tourism and to ban non-residents from buying houses which are just used for a few months a year or for speculation,” Pere Joan Femenia, a member of the Less Tourism, More Life group that organized the protests in Palma, told Reuters.

In protests in Barcelona last month, people shouted “go home!” and squirted water at tourists, according to the Associated Press.

While some residents want tourism out, people involved in the industry say a crackdown on rentals or a broader turn against visitors will be economically harmful.

“There is an investment behind this that has created jobs and tax revenues and a way of life, which will now have its wings clipped,” Bonaventura Durall, who runs a company that rents out 52 apartments near Barcelona’s beachfront, told the AP.