anchor: Four decades after it exploded, tourism on the islands overheated, leaving in its ashes a forest of massive, block-booked hotels and beach-hugging villa communities with few discernible ties to Spain'places lined with German bier halls, English fish  n' chips joints, and low-rent bars and discos.
positive: Because of the tourism boom, the islands are strewn with artifacts of foreign culture that bear little relation to Spain.
negative: For 40 years tourism has been in decline and local culture has come back strong.