Is anybody avoiding booking holidays to Spain due to the demonstrations?

You may as well go where you want and don't worry about it.

Mass tourism is becoming a problem all over the world. There aren't just protests in Spain, there have been in Amsterdam, Peru, areas in Mexico and Hawaii plus other countries and places (Venice for one) are complaining as well.

I imagine the protests will extend to other countries as well. So, you may as well just avoid travelling abroad and go to Cornwall and annoy the locals down there instead!!

Give the children water pistols so they can shoot back. I’m sure they would find it great fun.

I think some people are in danger of making this crisis about themselves.

I hear what people say about general grumpiness at airports but this is the airport I fly in and out of several times a year and it always was my second favourite airport. On this occasion though, the treatment of tourists was truly appalling.
They weren't just rude and grumpy to us, they were shouting at us. I got chased and shouted at by a security woman from a completely different aisle because I didn't take my shoes off (having confirmed with security in my aisle that I didn't need to). The woman behind me had rizzlas and tobacco on a tray and was asked is this was all she smoked and, when told "yes", security guard asked he "why should I believe you?".
The staff behaved as though they would be better suited to work in a concentration camp. I tried to log a complaint but the website made it extra difficult so, sadly, I had to move on.
I can deal with stony faces, long queues but not with shouting and deliberate humiliation. Tourists were clearly not welcome to come back and they got their point across very well indeed.

Why are only Spain protesting?
What about Turkey, Croatia they have loads of holidays available and want people to come?

Also dont the people who protest go away anywhere?
What kind of life would they have if there were no tourism?

DD1 went to Magaluf recently and there were no protests anywhere.

We are in Lanzarote now, have encountered no ill feeling at all.

We’re currently in Valencia and haven’t experienced anything untoward.

I was in Majorca in June and had no issues at all and Palma airport allows you now to use the gates and passport stamped other side

Tricky - I wouldn’t be worried about the protests but I do massively sympathise with the protesters. So on that basis will probably be avoiding Spain for the next couple of years until their laws change and help deal with the excessive tourism.
If they say they don’t want more tourist, then they don’t.
I have avoided Venice for the same reason. It’s being destroyed by tourism and I do not want to be a part of that - plus it sounds a bit like it would be an overcrowded nightmare anyway

Is Lanzarote affected by this? My sister is going there in 2 days time!!

Passport control peeps are grumpy and unsmiling across the world. It is in their job description. They have their pay docked if they smile. Engaging in conversation with a tourist is a sackable offence
Worst of all, they are tested to the limit every shift by their passport office counterparts who make sure everyone's passport photo is so ugly, passport controllers have to stick forks in their legs to make sure they don't laugh (see above).

We were in a Spanish city last month and had no issues. There was a protest going on outside the the town hall but we just avoided it and everyone was very welcoming

I normally go to the Canaries every couple of years but i am not going back due to the protests, looking at Greece and Italy. Probably be good to try somewhere new.

We won't be going.

I don't want to be squirted with water and yelled at when having dinner (and spending money in their local economy)

Regarding immigration officers at passport control, I try to remember that we are on holiday and in a good mood, they are doing an essential job at Border Control. Yes I have encountered stony faced officers in many places (not just Spain), but I still say Hello in whatever language I need for that country, and smile. Doesn't cost me anything and TBH if I was sitting behind a screen looking at god awful mugshots all day long I think I'd probably go a little grumpy too.

You only have to worry about immigration officers if they won't let you in, or have a query on your length of stay (Brexit) etc.

If you are staying in a hotel, yes I think you should go. What I think you should not do, be it Spain or anywhere else, is Air BnB or similar short term lets. A hotel does not deny a person a place to live or price them out, and probably is in use year round.

Barcelona was considering restricting short term lets, I hope they did or do, and everywhere else follows suit.

(The only thing I did find is that the passport control staff were exceptionally unwelcoming and grumpy even compared to usual - but this may not be connected)

I’ve been to Spain (/the islands of) 2 or 3 times this year and will no doubt go a few more times before the year is out. I’ve not encountered any anti-tourist attitudes whatsoever. In fact, when I’ve chatted with staff in restaurants they’ve expressed that the tourists do need to keep coming.

I'm currently in a small town on the Atlantic coast in the Galicia region. I've been in Spain about 3 weeks now. I have not encountered any protests or problems whatsoever. I do speak some Spanish though (lived in Central America for 4 years) so maybe that helps. Also, I drove here down from France so have not used any airports. The largest towns I've visited were Gijón and A Coruňa, no reasonable sized cities. Maybe that's one method to avoid protests / problems?