Canary Islands see thousands protest against too much tourism
2024 ж. 19 Сәу.
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Thousands of people are taking to the streets of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, angry at the impact mass tourism is having on the Spanish archipelago.
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Residents say they are fed up with soaring costs and the sheer volume of people flooding the islands which they say is unsustainable and putting enormous pressure on resources.
Environmental groups are also sounding the alarm.
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If this was England, channel 4 would be calling them bigots and racists
Cool strawman bro. It doesn't add anything to the conversation though
@@BadgerOfTheSea you had to like your own comment
@@BadgerOfTheSeaIt just an opinion
only if white
@@BadgerOfTheSea I don’t think you know what a straw man is 😅 But it’s true, if Britons were protesting to get foreigners to leave their country, channel 4 would label them nazis
I Completely Support Them. I Will Help Them Out By Going On Holiday Elsewhere. Not a Problem Adios.
That's why Cruise ships are all the rage nowadays
2nd that, 😂 ta ta Canaries 👋
In the Canary Islands there are plenty of disrespectful tourists, If you are one of them, I wish you a good trip and I hope you never set foot in the kingdom of Spain again.
Thanks.
Please do the same for us in Cornwall too. Thanks for your consideration.
There is no problem with tourists. There is a problem with their representatives who don’t control the islands in the residents’ favour, don’t make and enforce laws to protect the residents and nature but let huge corporations build and build and build for ever growing profits. At least that’s how I see it.
Similar to the UK then
Protest against them and not tourists, who can and will go elsewhere if you make them unwelcome, then see how much worse it will get for the Canary Islands.
@@seandobson499less money and more peace and quiet vs more money and less peace and quiet. It's a sliding scale, not all or nothing. Me, I like peace and quiet.
@@seandobson499 I, for one would go there the minute they limit the numbers they are willing to take.
It's the tourists too, there's just too many of them. A lot of them are entitled and irritating. It's almost like 8 billion people is too many.
It's like every ski resort. Wealthy people buy up all the real estate & leave the population that support the resort stranded with unaffordable housing prices & excessive rent.
Like holiday homes in the Lakes in the UK. Tax them triple!
Stop paying taxes.
Exactly, who do these people think they are, taking over their country and couldn't care a toss about them. Water shortages and yet tourist are plunging in their heated pools daily.
Too many British immigrants
Come to Devon and Cornwall and see the amount of second homes.
At least tourists bring money and then go home again. Our “tourists” arrive with no money, expect us to supply them with everything and then want to stay.
stop being an idiot. I know what you mean by “our tourist”. anyway, the real tourist brings into billions of pounds into the UK economy daily. not all none whites are immigrants or asylum seekers. Millions are tourist and spend lots of money in your country
Excellent point!
Exactly, non whites are two faced hypocrites.
Before you know it the tourists you refer to will be british citizens
well said.
This is what is happening to many ‘tourist hotspots’, having a detrimental impact on local communities all over the world
No it has nothing to do with tourism. It is all about government planning. Making it difficult for locals to live.
But them tourist spots don’t take migrants, wonder how they would feel then
Complete bs this place has no other source of income, they got fat lazy and entitled because they did too well on tourism.
Thats not true. The tourust spots where created in very impoverised communeties to help them orosper and prosper wjth our money they have. They cant have it allways or they got back to tge impoverised state they used to be in
Yeah, money is terrible.
The same thing is happening in the Caribbean. All inclusive resorts are ruining the tourism industry and they no longer benefit locals because most the profits leave the country so poverty rises which leads to crime.
The problem is that the inclusive resorts were built because of the crime on tourists by locals.
Jamica is dangerous not quite the same as the canaries, I do still understand what your saying though, it's just not safe, I went 8 years ago, was shock the amount of people on crack in montego bay...
@@janeac69450 years ago there were no all inclusive hotels in Montego Bay and no crime or crack heads… go figure. It was exactly like the Canaries.
@@JP-lz3vknonsense.
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As someone that lives in a UK tourist hotspot I can totally understand their anger. Out of season, there is no work. There are no careers, only dead end jobs. It drives up property prices beyond what locals on a seasonal income can afford and that's without adding airbnb and similar services into the mix. Relying solely on tourism does not work for entire regions.
There are no 'seasons' in the Canary Islands. It is holday season all year round. The main problem for locals in Lanzarote, Tenerife etc is lack of affordable housing for locals.
There's no "out of season". It's the Canaries.
So now it’s going to be out of season 12 months of the year 🤦🏻♂️ how is that going to help them?????
You thinking of the Balearics?
The mind boggling stupidity and ignorance in this comment .. go to any holiday resort in UK and learn what lack of tourism does. I hope people do stop going.. they’ll find out the hard way their new friends do not work and do not contribute . Fck them!
I'm from the Canaries and we are not against tourists at all because, among other things, we are tourists as well and it's the base of our economy. The problem is the model, we don't want more huge buildings destroying our nature and either we don't want our islands to end up as ugly as Benidorm is. We are aware of any industry has negative effects; we are asking only for minimizing those effects. Responsible growth so that the tourists and us can keep enjoying in the future our best treasure: the nature of the islands.
That is completely fair, full is full, stealing the beach and nature from locals is so bad
So your not against tourists, why are you waving signs saying "Tourists go home" in English? To me that very much looks like your against tourists.
@@cambs0181 At least not the manifesto of the march is against tourists. If someone takes a banner with a message is his/her personal opinion, but it doesn't mean that that is the goal of the march. To understand what's the purpose of the march you need to read the manifesto.
Totally get it.
In brief you don’t want the cheap package and cruise ship types en masses but welcome an exclusive elite .wise move .
They know how we in Britain feel then but our tourists never go home and we are paying for the hotels for them to live in and keeping them.I hope when you stop the tourists you have the millions of tourists that we have who pay for nothing.Then you will have something to moan about.
Oh Girl, a whole city in spain is home Briddish. UK does not get nearly as much tourism apart from art galleries.
@@PHlophe No we just get illegals from every middle eastern country who we pay for.At least your tourists have paid to visit your country and the people who moved there are paying to live there.
you forget that they are all shite hawks.
The british journalist always says 'theyre not saying they don't want tourists' but the banners always read 'tourists go home'!
every banner?
Do you think a single banner is meant to express their entire point of view
@@miguelrodriguez-pineroriva6713 from what I've been reading and seeing on the news and the protest they recently had then yes..
They are a tiny minority, they do not speak for the overwhelming majority!!!! That is a fact. All blown out of proportion as usual.
A few days ago, I was shocked 😮to hear in Spanish News about a local Canary Lady, who was fined with the fee of 3,000 Euros for not allowing any Tourist Estate Agencies taking her flat for renting to tourists 😢. It appears to be compulsory by Canary Law, to allow Tourist Estate Agencies to forcibly take any private flat from their local owners in any hot touristic areas in the island for tourists rent!!!😮. What kind of freaky law is that 😢!. And since the local lady refused to leave her flat for tourists rent, she was fined!!!😮😢😮
@@misschicka2831 ; She was not renting the flat. She was the owner of the flat. That’s why the new is rather shocking.
@@misschicka2831 why would you open your mouth when you have no idea.. what she says is totally true. And it is not just that lady.. even people who happen to live in those tyhe whole year are getting fines.. and you wonder why these guys are protesting?...
Get rid of your corrupt politicians
All are corrupts ,thats the problem ,from the left to the right
They have all already voted against the measures that the protest supports towards a sustainable tourism unfortunately
@@joaquindiaz4730 Todos los paletos no saben decir otra cosa
Inter-national $$$vs$$$.. And economics...
Like Rishi supporting a genocide yes?
Tourism is not benefitting the residents just corporations that build huge hotels all inclusive and profit. Whilst residents are not profitting but experiencing all the negatives Noise pollution, Trash, Over Crowding, Crime etc
So they don't employ any locals then and tourists don't buy from any other shops or bars or restaurants or cafe they just get off the plane sit in the hotel and don't see the sites really
@@thechilliman1602you’re dumb.
Crime? Tourists also go sightseeing and walk around places and eat at other places,buy from local shops. You don’t spend your whole holiday in the hotel.
So the locals are not benefitting from the tourists?.... rubbish
@@thechilliman1602wages in hospitality are peanuts compared to profits Tourists shopping is a nightmare to service, the ratio of peak to extended trough is not healthy for small businesses. Many tourists are on package holidays, where the only local spend is sightseeing and trinkets. While they don't spend all thier time in the hotels, they don't spend a lot of money outside them.
the greed in tourism is insane iv seen it myself and its worse than the money doesnt flow through the local economy but into the hands of a few elite
It is a problem world wide. Greedy freemasons hoarding all the resources and trying to keep everyone else as their servants and slaves.
Like everything, why is it a suprise.
Exactly.
It's politics, not tourism, and the government needs to make sure laws are implemented. Everyone can NOT make equal pay. Imagine every single body in the Canarias lavishly in wealth? Ok. 😂
What do you mean it doesn’t flow through the local economy? The clubs, restaurants, water parks hire staff creating jobs. More jobs means more people earning. More people earning the more people are banking and spending. That’s economic growth right there.
You cannot grow forever. We have the same problem in the uk. Too many people on a small finite island and a few gaining at the expense of the vast majority.
You're not wrong. It's a mountainous task providing for the people that are already here without bringing more in. Some would see that as a heartless approach, but it's a realistic one. What amazes me is the people who argue fervently for the defence of nature and local environment are also the ones championing the approach which will lead to the 'supply supply supply' approach which will ultimately lead to damage of nature and local environment.
The problem is the money and how it flows, people in it, the current system as is.. IMObservation. You have "the death of the high street", pubs etc. no one has enough to go buy anything really, splash like they used too.. you have the international world to count.. financial vs. its interaction.. its a power struggle.. ("expect oil shortages" "perhaps it came from an american soldier" "national"" interests")... $$$ values etc. Everything's Maximum profit, prior investment, current investment.. more for me and less for you.. You have nations keeping up with eachother, economically, personally (alot of talk of enterprising from out "oligarch" politicians lately), with investments, business, interests abroad, global standings, trade partners and so forth.. You have a world built on money and the flow of it, trade and the integrity of it.. capitalising, business and investment.. and its locked in a VS. from bottom to top.. IMO, we need a new system, a new world order, one that plays for us all, in to the future. How we play with money makes the difference here imo, international interaction a big biggy. We could "soundly" combat pollution.. Wonder how many textile factories have pumped rivers full of poison just to keep their business going, to cut costs, because their national economy cannot support, cannot keep up without etc. it happens. This world and its Financialised VS.. We could have more equality in pay across the board, more economic boom all round the globe.. Theres means and ways to manage our world financially and as is currently, it seems to be lost in a little, a large bit of a selfish financial interaction.. and possibly the fact of the current world, its values being built off of. There was a red dwarf episode i seen the other day, on about militarised industry and how the entire financial world is held up in the stocks of it..
They should count themselves lucky. Britains tourists come over on inflatable boats and we have to feed and house them for free. At least the tourist give and not just take.
Well,Said.
The economic migrants you criticise are keeping the NHS afloat. Maybe you hate our health service?
@Matthew-bu7fg He is talking about illegal entry to the UK and you know that don't you.. See, 5yrs ago i was supporting migrants.. then i saw the migrants were all men - no women, no children.. Thay struck me as odd -
We get benefit tourism.
@@Matthew-bu7fgNah they’re not, they are the ones crippling it with massive amounts of immigration.
Boomers flooding into these towns then complain about immigrants in the UK- unbelievable world we live in
But they spend money and have respect. Unlike immigrants lol
Puerto Ricans feel the same way and so do the people in Hawaii. The actual citizens can’t afford homes or prices for goods and services.
Uk and usa citizens feel the same ,with illegal people coming in
But that is not tourism it is government planning.
Take migrants, it’s a lot worse
Then Puerto Ricans should stay there and lead by example!
It is a story as old as people going on holiday. Even seaside towns went through it. Step 1: Build an economy dependent on tourism Step 2: Get tourists Step 3: Complain about tourists Step 4: Tourists feel unwelcome so stop coming Step 5: Complain that the tourism industry collapsed
No complains at all.
Not quite! A change is the best thing, they will find betters ways of making a living instead of sucking up to greedy, trashy tourism which in the long term, does not help people living there.
@BadgerOfTheSea - A CHANGE is a GOOD thing! Didn't you know that!?
Step 6 - import millions of illegal immigrants to fill hotels left empty 💰
"complain about stagnating economy".*
Someone was holding a sign saying "Tourists go home: Migrants welcome". Well we have tens of thousands of migrants here in the UK they can have...
yet tourists spend money, migrants ? well
@@wendygraham6863migrants spend money, AND they work and contribute to the culture. So yeah, a biiiit better than tourists.
And tourists spend their money while migrants just take. Absolute idiots for wanting migrants not tourists.
@@wendygraham6863migrants work
Problem is tourism makes housing prices go crazy high. People buy houses for bnb, build more hotels than houses for people to settle in. Migrants don't do that.
The housing problem seems to be affecting all over Europe banks and billionaires using property as investments time this stopped tax them out of owning several properties tax them out these are people's homes not investments time this greedy madness stoped once and for all 🤬
I agree, we have the same problem in the UK and elsewhere but if the Canary Islands blame tourists for their problems, they will go elsewhere, where they are welcomed, then see how much worse it gets for the Canary Islands.
@@seandobson499 USA have done exactly that they will no longer allow people to have homes on their investment portfolio they have a year to sell up. 😎👍
@@seandobson499are you sure a certain type of tourist wouldn't go to a beautiful island with healthy visitor numbers? How much do all incl. tourists benefit the locals exactly?
Stop all inclusive hotels so the tourists that are there shop with the local Bars and restaurants etc Hopefully would be a compromise
AI is the main attraction. Good luck with stopping THAT!!!
@anneaylmer1655 I know it's a shame personally I love self catering on bed and breakfast u like to get out and explore the area and culture but each to his own Your totally correct its what most people want
not everyone goes to all inclusive resorts.
@karenslater3026 It's what poor people want you mean. Exactly the kind of tourists nobody wants lol.
Also Airbnb and similar websites, renting houses to tourists instead of the locals, who need them to actually live in!
I’ve been to Tenerife a couple of times and had a lovely time. But I think I’ll go elsewhere this year.
Me too. Turkey is nice and cheaper.
I agree, no more Tenerife for me. The same for Barcelona. Anywhere I'm hated they are not getting my money. Dubai, here I come!
Well, you are welcome on our island of Gran Canaria, we are next to that island that does not want others to get on top of it. Because it was basically Tenerife that started the movement on the island of Gran Canaria, we have not yet collapsed since Tenerife steals tourists from us and then they want them not to come not to their island but to the rest of the islands that make up the Canary Islands. CHOICE GRAN CANARIA ISLAND 💛💙
“Tourists go home, Migrants welcome” - Deluded 😂
they can have our migrants good luck with that🤣
I saw that, wtf, all the migrants do there is sell snide handbags to……..you guessed it…tourists😂😂😂 fkn aholes😂
@@bobp3194 Get's my vote,plus a few million of the "Brothers and Sisters"
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The migrants bring scrounging and crime, creating the need for more benefit officers and cops
I live in England , however I’m resident as well in Tenerife . I really don’t understand this . If the island economy is 40% from tourism why would they stop them ? I remember when I lived there 1 year in 2018, when the season was low ( no tourists) people would lose their jobs for a a while until things pick up again , clubs, restaurants and hotels would close for a bit and there were not tourists ,people had no jobs when it was peak time it was when everyone was working and employees needed the most . So more tourists means more hotels and more jobs . And they don’t understand that the accommodations problem is not just in canary islands but it’s in Spain and England and everywhere in the world skyrocket. But they don’t understand that even so the prices are going up in accommodations and properties, Canary Islands are still cheaper than many others places of Spain and Europe , there is a global crisis and Canary Islands people don’t understand this , they expect to have all cheap like always been I don’t understand no one of this it doesn’t makes sense to stop tourists.
It's the governments fault, they thrive on making the most money from it not the actual civilians. Like you said it's happening all over the world
Because,as history shows,it's easier to blame foreigners for all your problems rather than those who are really to blame. It is the councils and corrupt politicians on the Canary Islands that have not built affordable housing for years,allowed developers to build more hotels and enlarge others,allowed the hotels and most business's on the Canary Islands to pay the lowest salaries that they can get away with paying,allowed waste building material and the dumping of other things,allowed polution to flow into the sea and allowed the corruption and bribery at all levels that have led to this,not tourists but after visiting the Canary Islands for 40 years,I will never again set foot somewhere where I am blamed for all your problems,where I feel unwelcome,uncomfortable and resented and if you say this is not so,I suggest that all the politicians and residents of the Canary Islands read all the banners and signs in English on this and other videos that have gone worlwide.
Government needs to build affordable housing for workers
Totally agree. We've been holidaying in Lanzarote for about 14 years & there are abandoned, unfinished apartment blocks which could be finished & only for locals.
So if I go there as a migrant I am welcome but if I go there for a short break and spend money I am not. Tourists did not grant planning permission for hotels or holiday apartments so why see them as the enemy?
I know it's a ridiculous situation and probably a case of whoever shouts the loudest
It's a shame the hatred they are showing the tourists rather than the developers. Time to boycott the Canaries, then they'll come begging for our money.
@@misschicka2831 Many builders in Spanish tourist areas are not Spanish: Russians, Norwegians... nationalities you would never say
So what shall they do for employment? Maybe the enemy is not the tourist, but their own government? Just a thought.
... the same thing that a lot of people in the UK do for employment I'd guess. Are you seriously suggesting that because this is a "tourist hotspot" that they have no schools, hospitals, banks, retail, restaurants, universities, dealerships etc
You're right about the government, but tourism is "only" 40% of the economy. IF the population is happy then a rural life and economy is totally possible. The 40% won't be missed by the majority.
@@dougaltolan3017a serious recession is a 2% contraction in the economy over a period of a few months and you’re talking about a permanent 40% like it’s nothing 🤡 😂
I’m suspicious about what is going on here,it has the whiff of the WEF about it as they don’t want you going on holiday anymore. Especially with people holding banners saying tourists go home and migrants welcome when the whole point of being a tourist is that you go home once your holiday has ended and you add to the economy by buying stuff,eating at restaurants etc. Migrants just take take take and don’t go home.
Thanks
P. Off with the WEF nonsense. Some poor sod just burnt himself alive thanks to you spreading this BS. Tourist contribution to the local population is minimal and unpleasant. Immigrants work and contribute, so sod off with that BS as well.
I agree brain washed ideology not thought through.They don't want us to travel.
Keen eye unlike most NPC's
Its funny how these people dont want tourist there . whats the history of this island.? Who did they end up there ? Its not even their land
Why don't we all have a DNA test made, leave our countries and go to wherever we are supposed to belong?
@@LMPV4 how did you get there or your great great grwnd parents parents ? How was the island found? We can twlk without been rude
It is not about tourism per se, it is the lack of housing for people, it is the lack of respect that some tourists do not show to the islands, it is the tourist attractions that destroy the eco system. There is too much corrupton in the governments who should be protecting the islands and its people, not cowtpwing to large corporations allowing building of more hotels and apartments for tourism that will definitely not protect these islands but will destroy them. They should have heeded Cesar Manrique's words
What about the genuine holidaymaker who will likely spend a lot of money, respect their surroundings and appreciate their short stay particularly in Tenerife? Will they get the same honour in return or will they be tarred with the same brush?
No tourists No trade, no hotel booking, no money.
They don't want the excess of tourism,
They want tourism their way.
No tourists, 40% less trade, 40% less money. It helps if you WATCH the video.
I'm sure they are all dumb and you are the 1 sentence genius.
They are all clueless and you're the 1-sentence genius.
Wait untill the tourist money dries up
😂
The one they spend on beer in an all incl resort? Or the one they spend on airbnbs making the locals hopeless and homeless? Aren't you bright....
With a flawed and exploitative system like capitalism...we are forced to pimp ourselves, our neighborhoods, our environment etc out for profits. It's a nightmare. People need to wake up and realise this should not be considered as "normal".
Have these people forgotten what covid did to their economy? Putting up with tourism may be hard but not having them is even harder.
If they are anything like the tourists we get in UK i can't say i blame them.
We all need to agree not to go somewhere and just see what happens. Would be interesting to see if they would thrive or decline.
Aren't you the brightest of them all....
@@susivarga7303 I’m asking for a study mate.
What they need is to have the hotels empty of paying European tourists and fill them with African economic migrants like here in Ireland who have their hotel and everything else paid for by the natives just like the Italian and Greek Islands, be careful what you wish for .
Spain doesn't have money to house THOUSANDS OF IMMIGRANTS 💩💩
The whole of the UK is in the same boat, and we do not even know what crimes many of these people have committed in their own countries or how many of them are the enemy within, nor does anyone in any of the Canary Islands so when we all go elsewhere because we are sick and tired of being blamed for problems that are entirely the making of the Canary Islands themselves, they can all have fun selling each other fake watches and sunglasses because that will be the only job they have left.
shut up
It is exactly the same in the UK and they can have ours as they say they prefer migrants to tourists,as several banners and signs say exactly that.
The Spanish would be moaning even more if 40% of the islands income disappeared and 25% of the locals became unemployed!….Be careful what you wish for!……
Exactly,Brits wanna Boycott the country as a whole see how they suffer
All my support for the people of the Canary Islands, wonderful people that endures the bitterness of the tourism industry with remarkable patience and stoic attitude. Tourism is a horrible business when strict boundaries are not set for the normally unconsidered tourist, they often have very little respect for the area and the local people.
@davidoyega. 'inconsiderable tourist'. For the rest I agree with you.
not all tourists (or foreigners) are bad
“Commentators comments saying they don’t want tourists to stop coming” Protestors holding up signs saying tourists go home. Not a problem. I guarantee that if all tourists were to go home poverty would be very high on their next agenda and once you’ve driven the tourists away it’s a lot harder to get them back.
Crazy don't bite the hand that feeds you
That's their point isn't it? Tourism doesn't seem to be feeding or housing them very well. All the profits go to a small number of operators, many of whom hire cheap migrant labour rather than locals.
Tourism is poverty
@@user-sg1wn7ho2r we have cheap migrant labor in the UK?
@@susomedin5770 how so ?
With a flawed and exploitative system like capitalism...we are forced to pimp ourselves, our neighborhoods, our environment etc out for profits. It's a nightmare. People need to wake up and realise this should not be considered as "normal".
Fair enough. Stop going (I've never been). Leave them to go back to living in poverty and catching fish.
Better that than having your "kind" here.
@@counterfan90its near Africa now it's going to be like Africa 😂
You're not missing anything, it's very boring there.
@@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo lanzarote was quite nice tho Playa blanca
@@JayJourneys_1 Truth be told it's ugly one giant volcano.
How very bizarre. Fair enough, I hear the Greek islands are very nice 👍
Hilarious. Without tourism they are NOTHING.
What a disrespectful comment, to say about other people that they are nothing. Maybe they aren't people for you either....Are "the natives" not friendly?
@@susanaescriba977 The Islands are NOTHING without tourism, fact. How disrespectful are you to come at me and comment on my opinion. Never found the 'natives' particular friendly, no.
@@Richard-fv7rq "Disrespectful comment " Dice el guiri molesto porque no le ponen la alfombra roja a su llegada.
@@susanaescriba977 No deseo una alfombra roja, solo necesito una cara amigable cuando me quiten todo mi dinero.
@@Richard-fv7rq Lo ves "cuando me quitan el dinero".....prejuicios.
As someone who grew up in the Lake District these people have my sympathy
So you don't want anyone to visit the Lake District? Only you?
@@Dave-nq6uy No. But thanks for taking it to extremes it helps a lot. I want to be able to have the ability to function as a human in my own county and have somewhere to live.
@@mongolmcphee7791 Oh so it's about you and your well-being. F everyone as long as you are happy. 🤦♂️ Typical British
Lake District has the same problem, rich people pushing poorer families out that have lived there for generations. Now it’s just full of angry locals and snobs who don’t want tourists. Simple answer to both places, don’t attract tourism. Close all the bars and restaurants owned by wealthy people and stop advertising
Exactly! But then again what idiot is going to spend £15 on a tiny pot of tea at Mrs tiggy winkles tea room. Been a climbing and hiking there since I were a kid. I do sympathise with the locals.
Because getting rid of those that spend money whilst welcoming those that will want everything for free is going to work out just fine.
As everywhere in the world including such places as Cornwall in the UK, tourism should be restricted to suit . Airbnb has possibly been the most destructive thing for areas attracting tourists. Decimating available accommodation supply to the point that people can no longer live in their home area. Whilst at the same time pricing locals out of the market anyway. There should be a strict limit on the percentage of Airbnb in any area! Multinationals building all- inclusive resorts too! Infact every business opportunity should go to locals first. The layer at the top lining their pockets while not giving a toss about the local population. I saw a poor man priced out of his home in Valencia. He had lived there 27 years, guess what it was changed to ... an Airbnb. More profit apparently 🙄
I booked a Binter Airlines flight transiting in the Canary Islands on my way from Senegal to Madrid, Spain. They sprayed chemicals on the passengers AT THE BEGINNING of the flight, so no one had access to clean air for over 2 hours! I can't understand why in the world anyone would be willing to take this Canary Islands based airlines. That alone should be killing tourism there. If you don't want people to come, tell everyone about this. Health conscious people won't come and others will think twice.
simple don't visit the islands.
They'll miss you. They don't have enough dummies over there.
You cant eat scenery you have to have real work that gives you a living income
These people better be careful before they find themselves in the same position as the Hawaiians. Money & profit will always win. ALWAYS!
Be careful what you wish for
Dont the people in the Canaries go on holiday then!?
I think they do not in general
Well done to these people for protesting against the vile take over attitude of out of control tourism.where much suffers all due to rampage of Tourism. Local people , wildlife and flora and fauna matter most Bravo to all of you .I support you 👏🏻👍
Have you ever travelled abroad?
@@lervish1966judging by the shocking English and not knowing that wildlife is flora and fauna... I would say no
funny, if you had ever been to canary islands you would be aware about the benefits for locals and all their support from EU and mainland Spain while showing so little vision and motivation to change the island to a better one; they are demanding for more support and want to work less, don't bring their level to 21st century (water, water treatment, renewables) fortunately, "they" are a minority potentially much as this evil tourism which wants to take over the island
It’s to be hoped you don’t travel or go on holiday..?? Or do you consider yourself to be above all the “ rabble “ ? No doubt you have your own little place and consider yourself one of them..patronising cow that you are..🤔
If they were thriving already why did they build hotels in the 50s/60s & wanting the northern European tourists to come? The reality is they were living in poverty growing tomatoes or emigrating to Venezuela. Tourism saved their arses.
I live on a smaller Canary island with very little tourism. What the people are complaining about is that much of the rented accommodation available is being converted for tourist use and locals, who are the service providers for the tourist industry, are being priced out of the market. This has reached crisis proportions in islands like Tenerife.
I go every year and spend on average £2k. Won't be going again, hope more tourists feel the same. Weren't these the same people begging us to go back after COVID?
Yet a large part of their economy is based on tourism
The strange concept of 'enough'.
Not really.
Allegedly 40%. That's a big bite of the cherry!!
But it doesn't feed into the town, most hotels are owned by non locals and the money leaves the economy. All inclusive hotels mean people are not leaving the resorts and the resorts pay badly. Resorts especially all inclusive are ruining the economy in many countries.
@@anneaylmer1655 Makes no sense. Tourist think that all the native are their employers. Thats true. You can read the comments to see that.
Leave them. I would love no one to go there. See how they survive without tourists.
They will end up on boats to the UK
Similar to the Uk but our tourists never leave.
Moan about it
Sooner they get some warehouses there and three shifts on performance bonuses the better, they will be much more contented.
OK , Lets all just stop going there and see what the place looks like in 3 years when everything is closed , there are plenty of other places that would welcome the tourists with open arms
I'm sure they are gonna survive
Exactly. I saw the same in Thailand. Once the tourists stopped coming to Koh Chang after covid. So much was boarded up.
Less tourists makes it more expensive then more exclusive for just the rich At least Tourists go home asylum seekers don’t what will they do if they get that problem And if there saying the uk tourism then this what we get for leaving the EU because it would of been our right like it would of been there right to visit but now we not welcome anymore anywhere
Spain as a whole actually is doing very well in growth.
@@polreamonn Same in Bali.
Yeah local are not benefiting from tourism only big corporations
none of the local cafes and restuarants benefit?
@@Answersonapostcard they don't go to local cafes . its always an all inclusive. money rarely leaves the tourists spots.
@@PHlophe Pues yo si. Nunca me alojo en un hotel todo incluido, no todos los visitantes son iguales. Some of us speak Spanish too, so don't lump us all together.
@@Answersonapostcard hola, lo entiendo, pero la mayoría de los hoteles están asociados con tiendas específicas, spa, deportes e incluso cines. Funciona como una Maffia. La gente se queja porque están excluidos del trato. Algunas grandes entidades están disfrutando del botín.
@@PHlophe Huh? When I've stayed in Tenerife it's been on a half board basis and go out for lunch and then drinks & ice cream in the evening. Not everywhere is AI.
I think that besides tourism, there are hardly any employment opportunities in the Canary Islands. If tourism declines, a large number of residents will have to move to the mainland to Madrid in search of work. Ultimately, a large number of people also benefit indirectly from tourism. I believe that some protesters do not understand the entire context. Personally, however, I do not travel to areas that rely solely on tourism and have little cultural offerings.
Had been going to Canary Islands for our family holidays through TUI. I Won’t be going there anymore.
don't buy package holidays, book flights and accomodation separately and try and experience the island as a local.
I am actually surprised. i would not have thought that all of places this is where you'd choose to spend your vacation. Goa looks wonderful so does Amritsar . why not inject cash on nicely curated experiences from the subcontinent . The Canards they don't rock with you like that.
@@PHlophe Flights to Europe are cheaper, as a guess..
Nor I.
can we take the same approach to foreigners in the UK? No because that’s racist apparently
No problem, we will go elsewhere....enjoy your unemployment.
No one cares, you think you are entitled to go anywhere and do whatever you like when you are classfied as "tourist"? You are famous jumping from the balcony uh?
I'm happy to spend my holiday money elsewhere, I have no issue going on holiday somewhere I feel more welcome! Good luck 👍 No tourists = no jobs, no money.....😮
I am German and I live in Germany. I originally wanted to go on holiday to the Canary Islands to escape the cold and rainy weather in Germany. I won't be doing that now, I'm going to choose a different destination. The Canary Islands are no longer on my travel list. I will only go on holiday where I am welcomed as a tourist and not seen as a nuisance. 😠
Give El Salvador a try now their gang free
Still protesting... christ i left after 2 weeks, I thought they'd be happy.
One sign said "Tourists go home, but migrants welcome". I understand that tourist masses are a problem, but I'm not really sure if she would really want that at the end...
Canaries instead of Rwanda, they can have all of ours.
Migrants generally don't work and have no money to spend. These protests are often infiltrated by far left groups.
These people seem to have very quickly forgotten that three years ago there was a pandemic and no tourists.
As someone from Ibiza, we have police officers living in vans because they can't afford even sharing a room in summer, we had to restore the old hospital to accommodate our doctors because they also cannot afford to pay rent, and we have teachers flying every day from Mallorca because is cheaper than actually living in Ibiza. A society without teachers, police and doctors is a failed society. We get every year more and more tourists, collapsing our island, and many of them behaving as animals the moment they taste a sip of alcohol, but locals have to endure this annoyance for six months every year because "tourists feed us" while being poorer every year
@@misschicka2831 El govern balear ja ha gastat milers d'euros en campanyes a països com Alemanya, o Regne Unit per conscienciar a la gent que ve aquí de vacances cada estiu que a Eivissa hi ha gent que hi viu, i que no és un parc temàtic on ells poden comportar-se com animals, però encara així cada setmana obris el periòdic i trobes notícies de turistes que es maten tirant-se de balcons, que fan les seves necessitats al carrer sense cap tipus de vergonya, que passegen nus pel carrer assaltant a qualsevol que passi per devora, que provoquen baralles, renou, brutícia... Els nostres polítics ja han intentat posar mesures per limitar l'adquisició de cases per part d'estrangers, que inflen artificialment els preus de compra i de lloguer a la gent que treballa aquí i manté l'illa, però han set bloquejades per la Unió Europea cada vegada. No se tracta d'expulsar als turistes i estrangers de l'illa, sinó d'adoptar un model turístic que sigui sostenible a llarg termini, que realment ens aporti riquesa perquè l'actual és evident que és insostenible i els pocs beneficis que aporta no arriben als illencs
They could put a blanket ban on visitors renting private accomodation and make visitors show proof of hotel booking. This way the island would set a limit once hotels are full.
Whilst I certainly have some empathy it does put me off ever considering the Canary Islands as a holiday destination
Jase, you can have some good time in Trinidad and Tbago and Jamaica. Plus english is the local language. stop crying.
@@PHlophe Prefer not to visit countries with such high homicide rates.
the UK has its number and america has far far worse. work on the bigotry and you will be fine.there is reason why some of the biggest UK stars choose t and T and ajamaica as their second home.
@@PHlophe why bigotry? I just prefer to visit safer countries. UN report in 2022 reported per 100,000 people, Jamaica had the highest homicide rate in the world, T and T was 5th. The USA was 55th whilst UK was 142nd. Thats why.
Let them direct some tourists to Southern Africa. There are almost no tourists visiting us here
Every person I know who has been to South Africa always has a story of how they got robbed.
@@cambs0181 typical black enrichment
Lets hope they get what they want and go completely bankrupt
The Turkeys are voting for Christmas 😂😂you couldn’t make it up 😂😂😂
Sustainable growth without tourism? Better get planting more palm trees amigos.
Overpopulated earth.
EXACTLY! So get off it!
The global system is the original problem, I have been twice in Canarian Island, many years ago there was only British tourism. I spent few months in Tenerife and Las Palmas. I did not like that place so artificial
There was a docked cruise ship in the footage. Could that be a potential small part solution to the continental widespread problem of accomodation for tourists? There's no easy answer here apart from supply supply supply, but that in itself brings it's own issues of natural surroundings being decimated.
Fair point. But they love our money coming in paying their wages. So lets boycott them in solidarity🙄 Greece looks warm ...
Tourists should STOP going completely to SUPPORT the local desires.
Sorry folks but without tourism how are the islands supposed to survive??? Get that f outta here with that bs
As they always did before that 😂
@@politicallyincorrect2564 When many locals lived in poverty and emigrated to Venezuela?
@@politicallyincorrect2564who wants to live off olives and donkey meat ?
@@andrewtrip8617 you are definitely not a local, are you?
I think the internet and especially social media can ruin beautiful places. For example, I used to have a great private dog walk that not many people knew about, I know about it because my family had an allotment up there when my mum was only a child. Now the local town dog lovers group has spread the word and now it’s busy :/ so on a larger scale I bet this happens to beautiful places like this
I went on Holiday to Tenerife in the mid 80s , loved it beautiful island , went back 20 years later and was appalled by the development , ruined , never been back and never will, they should have kept it exclusive instead of making it like benidoorm , such a shame , I feel for the residents .
People who claim "Canary Islands (or Spain) would go belly up without tourism". Who said we gotta scrap tourism altogether? The gripe's about overcrowding, not ditching tourism altogether. How basic is it to think in extremes, all or nothing? Look, eating's essential, but chowing down 5000 calories a day? That's a one-way ticket to the grave. It ain't rocket science to grasp that you can want tourism to stick around while also wanting to dial down its downsides.
One of the signs....'tourists go home, migrants welcome ' Good luck 😂😂😂😂
Read all the signs that are in English on this and other videos that have gone worldwide because they are making it very clear that you are blaming us for all your problems and are not wanted, so that is clearly what many of these protestors do think. Tourists are not to blame for your problems, it is your own councils and politicians that are solely to blame for your problems, they have failed, for years, to built housing at affordable rent, allowed the hotels and almost every business on the Canary Islands to pay the lowest salaries they can get away with paying, failed to control the growth of hotels and the enlargement of others, allowed the land to be built on and polluted and failed to stop the bribery and corruption that has led to all this, not tourists but, as ever, it is easy to blame foreigners for all your problems rather than your own politicians and councils, but I will never ever again set foot in the Canary Islands, where I would feel uncomfortable, unwelcome and resented so I will be going elsewhere and I do not think I will be alone so you will find out how much worse it can be.
They are protesting about over building and the use of native housing stock as Air BnB's. This is not directed at Brits.
We have the same problem in the UK, to many people, not enough affordable housing, the NHS can't cope, traffic everywhere, if we did this demonstration over here C4 would be calling us bigots racists and far right, we're also an island with to many people
It's a volcanic desert and cannot sustain itself without tourists.
Yet they are holding up signs asking tourists to go home!
Yet they are writing signs in English, telling tourists to go home!
As an Australian who travelled to the Canaries in December last year I have to concur with the feelings of the locals. We were bussed around the islands and dropped of at various places including wild places and volcanic places like cattle. We were taken to one market and to my surprise we were only one of 12 coaches that arrived at this place at the same time. This was clearly an imposition on the local people who use their market to purchase a great variety of food including fish, meat, cheese and vegetables. Why did we go here? This was the question I asked. There was nothing we could buy. I figured it out though. There was a lavatory at the rear of the market. That’s what we used prior to getting back on the bus. We roamed around the mall adjacent to the market like ants looking for somewhere to live. It was clear that although not rude or impolite this mass of tourists visiting this place for no real reason was an imposition. There were numerous instances of being dropped of at places like this. My trip to the Canary Islands was not a pleasant one. This was caused by the cruise companies not the locals. I fully support their calls for change. It has to be done far better than this in this wild and beautiful place.
I'm in Lanzarote at the moment i will stop coming so will many more and within two years they will be begging for us to come back.
Ashlee, come to Jamaica and Trinidad.
highly doubt it. there was about the same amount of people but less tourism 30 years ago and everyone could afford housing and a living.. now the tourism is much higher but people cant afford those things.. probably thanks to uneducated tourists like yourself, since you cant even understand the issue. Stay home.
The island doesn’t have anything , the need tourist to survive !
without tourists the economy would die a death what have they to replace it volcanic ash.self catering eat local thats the way to do it.
All the local shops who rely on tourists who self cater or buy food and drink for the beach or the rooms.sun cream inflatables for you kids.They really lack intelligence these Spanish .They need a reality check.
They have the same problem at Disneyland - The people running the business allow too many people into the park - wait times /food all have cues - fast lane tickets are then sold to make more money and most people still have to cue for a long time - It becomes a totally unpleasant experience. I would not recommend it - others seem to have better organisation. It never used to be like this. So potentially this is the same problem - Crusie ships just appear with thousands of people and flood the shopping areas etc. There should be someone limiting the number of cruise ships - to avoid smothering the town and locals because the tourists also will not find the experience worthwhile.
I live on the Isle of Skye and we are overun with tourists we are a tiny island and it’s reached a level where it’s just not working anymore
its UK inland tourism on the IoS . You need to be honest about that. If you do not have smoke for English tourists then you are a part of the problem.
Y de que van a vivir ?
The locals will have to live on what they can produce like food and goods, if not, they will have to continue in tourism, or the Mainland can subsidise them to lounge in the sun!?!
🍌 🦧 Then----stone age reversal, 👏😂
They must be crazy, I was raised in a tourist town and just excepted it. Without tourists they will really know poverty (40% loss of income for the islands people). Their government did everything they could to encourage the tourists now the people don’t want them or the money they bring in…. They are going to regret their decision.
Hahaha! Stay home , don’t come to Spain at all. Pls and thank you
“¿Por qué crear una economía alrededor del turismo y luego quejarse cuando tiene éxito? Visitamos cada año fuera de temporada desde hace más de una década, 10 miembros de la familia y 4 amigos durante 10-14 días y gastamos fácilmente más de 16,000 euros, comemos fuera todas las noches y compramos en las tiendas locales. Nos resulta muy fácil simplemente irnos a otro lugar que esté a menos de 4.5 horas en avión y que sea más barato si de repente no somos bienvenidos...”
This has really got me …. 7 small volcanic rocks off the coast of Africa and they’ve had enough 😂😂😂. Wtf
Channel 4 how would you report this for Norfolk or Cormwall.... luddites, nativists Nimbys shall we say🙄🙄😊
You missed out 'far-right' the BBC would add extreme to it.
You live on an island. You have a good economy. That's not easy for islands to have. Count your blessings instead of complaining. The world has much bigger problems right now
I swear i don’t understand these signs!! Tourists go home and migrants are welcome, then proceed to complain about unemployment. I saw a sign saying tourists go home, pickpockets welcome! Why do you want to get to be mugged?I get the frustration of over tourism and what comes with it. It’s to me just the hateful signs and chanting i don’t get it. For starters tourists are going home after their holiday finished, but the migrants are staying committing crimes and leeching off the government, which means less funding to help the local people. Like why are you all stupid? Yelling at the tourist to go home suppose to bring the change? They will only look at you like you are a mental patient and then will enjoy the beach and a lovely lunch. Would that not be wiser to find the source of the problem? Locals started this not the tourists, you sold your soul to investors or renting your own place out during the season as a short term holiday let. What were you expecting. In addition your mayor and your government who signs the permits for construction etc. Tourists will keep coming if there is place to rent. Common sense is not very common.
DONT WORRY CANARIANS WE WILL NEVER COME BACK
Thank you....the right answer ...👍👍
as if you ever could get out from your tiny countryside box, not even in a cheap Ryanair flight.
You living in a cotagge and arguing baout it?