Tens of thousands of dancing and chanting protesters hit the streets across the Canary Islands on Saturday to demand changes in the model of mass tourism which they say is tourism-2993643?ico=in-line_link” class=” post_in-line_link”>overwhelming the Spanish archipelago.
Under the slogan ‘The Canary Islands have a limit’, protesters filled the main towns in all seven of the islands, packing the streets in the largest demonstration of its kind to date.
Chanting ‘from cement, you cannot eat’, demonstrators called for a moratorium on mass tourism, which they say is forcing up house prices, straining resources like water and blocking up the roads.
Others held signs reading ‘the invasion does not come from migrants boats, but in planes’, in a reference to the thousands of migrants from Africa who arrived in small boats in the islands compared with the millions of tourists who fly in.
The UK is the biggest source of tourism for the islands. British tourists accounted for 5.7 million visitors in 2023, more than a third of the 14.1 million…
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