Is Malta The New Magaluf? UK Tabloid The Sun Seem To Think So
Cover Photo Credits: The Sun & MaltaPartyClub
The Sun has published an article about Malta, featuring videos and footage taken in bars and clubs. The article described the archipelago as the “new Magaluf”.
“Lying underneath two girls, a wide-eyed young man gleefully laps vodka as it flows over their buttocks like a boozy waterfall,” reads the article.
“When the stream slows, he gets up and licks the last drops from their bodies.”
Magaluf is a major holiday resort on the Spanish island of Majorca – which attracts mostly younger crowds from across wealthy European nations, looking to let loose in the heat and relative beauty of a Mediterannean island.
This depiction of Malta is one which may surprise many of those living out their day-to-day existence in Malta.
While it cannot be denied – what with the photographic and video-graphic evidence offered by the British tabloid outlet – that this experience of Malta is a real one, that isn’t exactly how most people here actually live.
Most of us don’t live lives soundtracked by the thumping beats of club music, awash with bodily fluids and vodka.
Instead, we contend with the sounds of permanent traffic and heat-fuelled rage.
Another way that these club-goers distinguish themselves from Malta’s residents is that they’re occupying a space which, though dark, has actually got functioning electricity.
“Malta has transformed from quaint breaks for old fogeys to now attracting the 18 to 30 crowd,” reads the article.
The change “identified” here by The Sun is not really a new one.
Certain parts of Malta’s tourism industry have been reorienting themselves towards attracting younger crowds – who love a good party – for years.
There is a significant disparity between the experiences individuals can have in Malta when they’re just visiting, versus longer-term stays.
A visit can be some combination of peaceful, exciting, beautiful, and terrible – but a longer stay means reckoning with all of it, all at once.
Magaluf is still doing a great job of being Magaluf. Try as it might to increase its capacity for tourists of every variety, Malta won’t be taking that away any time soon.
In times of political turmoil and infrastructural catastrophe, we might ask ourselves, is this how we want Malta to be seen by the world?
Do you think Malta is the new Magaluf?
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