Thousands of defiant Brits have booked Tenerife and Lanzarote holidays despite rising tensions. UK tourists in the Canary Islands have faced tensions in recent months amid protests from locals over their behaviour and an influx of holidaymakers.
But package holiday firm On The Beach has seen sales rise by a third compared with the two weeks before the protests. Bookings are already up 18 per cent on 2023 and nearly 14million tourists visited last year — up 13 per cent on 2022.
Local Samantha Hasala said to the Sun newspaper: “Lots of people are saying, ‘We don’t want tourists here anymore’ — but it is not really about British people. It’s just because most of our tourists are British. We love British people.”
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Leigh Buckingham bought a package holiday on April 26 and said: “I saw the protests but it hasn’t stopped me — it actually reminded me to book. We love it there. We go…