Reluctant Party Tourism Destinations Go Back To Pre-Pandemic Experience

The Spanish island of Mallorca had a reputation as a no-rules party destination for young Europeans looking to drink excessively. Then the pandemic hit and tourism officials had the opportunity of a lifetime to remake the reputation of their island into something more. Unfortunately, that isn't happening as the island seems to have returned to hosting exactly the same kind of parties it had been notorious for before the pandemic.

The story of Mallorca's struggle to be more than it was is happening in other tourism destinations across the world as those places also experience just how hard it can be to change a reputation once it is built. The great reset of the pandemic was supposed to offer these places, and the rest of us, a chance to be better. Instead, it seems we're going right back to exactly who we were before, vomit-soaked binges and all.