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- Tens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Spain's Canary Islands to demand changes to mass tourism. They say the current economic model harms local residents and the environment. The protesters want authorities to take steps to lessen the negative effects of so many tourists flocking to the popular destination.
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#Spain #tourism #overtourism
I am a tourist… and I appreciate this kind of care in planning better tourism. It is important to protect their living too..
start taking resposibility your self, dont expect others to do that for you..
taking some travel packet with your eyes closed is not good for anyone or the nature we live in
@@Hansen710
You don’t know me… and what you say doesn’t even relate to what the people are saying. Open up your ears and mind…. They want to make tourism in their terms.. and it is their home so I say they can and should control how they open their country to tourism. I don’t see how that relates to your or my ideas of tourism. I have taken one packet in my life and it turned out pretty much as I expected. I had to do the package because I was ill and not able to do my usual form of travel. You just sound mean man… go vote for Trump so you can have a real reason to complain..
I understand environmental impact and their annoyance , but some countries don’t have enough tourism and other countries have too much tourism. In the country I live in there are much bigger problems than too much tourism and unfortunately we don’t protest enough.
@@matt995amg
Yeah for sure. But if their activism spreads and influences us to think about what is best for all we can hope it will evolve into a better situation that promotes better experience for all. I don’t think there should be a counterhere…❤️
@@hiltonwatkins6750 , Trump is good not your dictator in Brussels, how ignorant!
Bet the Venetians wished they had done this before their home turned into a theme park
From an Empire to a Theme Park, that is tragic to recognize
@@Cinnuhminn "Empire to Theme Park" is the natural progression. Eh, Greece-Rome-Venice-Paris-London-New York?
@@dudermcdudeface3674 People are entitled to their opinions. What differentiates us is whether those opinions have any merit. In this case, I simply do not see Venice as a 'theme park', even metaphorically. We know exactly what this 'rod' was getting at. They simply lack the vocabulary and wit to assemble more than a single incorrect statement. Rod, conversation around your opinions does not work without supportive evidence and far less generalization. Metaphors work well in describing things to those who do not understand, but they are the worst material to state a fact or opinion.
@@dudermcdudeface3674 You want to live in a theme park?
@@kzm-cb5mr The question isn't where you don't want to live, it's where _do_ you want to live.
Does someone have greater moral claim to a highly-demanded place because they're rich enough to stay permanently? Or employed in an industry that allows them to be free of dependence on tourists?
All I'm saying is, the world is a big place, and the vast majority of it is not being overrun with tourists. So when people complain about tourists, it's usually tourists who are doing the complaining. And usually rich ones at that, annoyed at seeing "common folk" in their special paradises.
If I could afford to travel, the LAST place I'd go is where everyone else is headed.
I have lived in Tenerife since i was 8yrs old (39 years) the Canarians aren‘t protesting about tourism, we live off Tenerife, i‘s the housing problem. The prices of houses have skyrocketed since AirBnB came on the scene, and alot of rich Europeans, come here to buy a house cheaper than in their home country and then use it as a holiday home and earn money off it using Airbnb and the Canarians are getting kicked out of their rental properties that are being sold and then can‘t afford, on the wages we earn here, to pay the exorbitant new rental fees. Get your facts straight!
How long ago did air bnb come into the scene in tenerife?
Exactly. It's the poor journalism that there is today.
It's a lack of quality housing for the residents that are either affordable to buy or rent. And also precisely what you have said
Real estate prices are up all over the world. This is not an isolated problem.
airbnb type of business have no market regulations whatsoever, they are the biggest unfair competition of the housing economy problem. the products of these companies should be heavy regulated, because they totally destabilize the housing markets. end capitalism.
@@fatfarmers7360 , It is growing a lot. I can understand the locals but the govt who is lousy. They collected all these taxes, they should built affordable housing and also subsidize down payment for locals.
I would bet the people making all the money don't live there.
I would bet people making all the money live there.
@@TheAllMightyGodofCodoccasionally
No. No viven aquí @@TheAllMightyGodofCod
I once watched a TV documentary about how young British tourists getting drunk and misbehaving in Magaluf and felt petty for the locals, especially the medical teams.
Yet it's the locals who are happy to serve them cheap alcohol in their bars.
@@cambs0181 True! The local bar owners even encouraged bar crawling by leaflets that were handed out by English speaking guys and girls. It was shown on that documentary. By mentioning locals, I meant the locals who are not directly involved with the local tourism industry. It was a combination of cheap flights, cheap accommodations, the hot weather, and cheap alcohol.
That's prob less than 1% of Brits who do that.
@@abrahamlevi3556 If there is a demand, there would be an offer...
@tombartram7384 that's a very optimistic number.
Ban Airbnb for starters.
I just watched a documentary where small islands and their limited water resources are running out and the sewage systems are failing. It's when faecal bacteria close swimming beaches and contaminate the locals' drinking water. The locals are driven to the slums because the apartments are too expensive. Luxus resorts are the worst.
sounds like every big city in europe..
somehow i would argue half of spain is empy and have all the local needs..
i had to move from where im from the prices went up like cracy, i dont know anyone that lives where i was born anymore..
everyone moved out..
no one is complaining, we got to a much better and cheaper place
@@Hansen710 The point is that native residents should not be forced from their homeland. Economic oppression is just as bad as any other kind. I am sure the wealthy appreciate your kindness in giving up your home for a less attractive one. If they had done it with rifles and bombs, I am sure you would have been much angrier. That said, in your situation, I would have left too. At least so far as I know. If you find yourself at the bottom of the food chain again, your best bet is to gain knowledge and strength, so you can keep the next place without being kicked out.
@@Perri_Redder The greed of some locals are killing us. We need the goverment to stop this insanity, tourist by themselves are not gonna stop comming.
I'm in Balearic Islands and tourist are a freacking bad infestation. I wish they don't come or if they do in a very small amounts at the time. We have a freaking plane landing here every minute!
@@JP-xd6fm I live in upstate NY. NYC has more tourism than I think people can imagine without living somewhere like you do. This year will see about 65 million visitors. I can easily see why people on islands could be very overwhelmed by a small fraction of that. NYC is built for massive amounts of people. Islands, by nature, aren't. I think you guys are expected to get around 20 million. That's just crazy. We need people to start vacationing on Mars, seriously.
Those "too much and better place" will be otherwise@@Hansen710
Demand 1000 Euros a day in fees per tourist. That will solve some of the issues.
Their home their decision
Correct. And It's our right to laugh in their faces when their main industry is destroyed because they hate people.
As if they didn't travel to other places too.
Get real!
@@whoees3953
Found the American.
@@whoees3953 They only hate you
@@whoees3953 totally agree man this people when they need a job they dont mind going to britain , france germany etc.. if they dont want us lets do the same👍
those private air b y b, private daily rental, driving up cost rental and removing private space from local resident, add on, garbage... the residents not just here, Barcelona is not place facing the same problem.
they totally destroy housing markets, because they have no regulations, regulate these business models, also, too many tourists prejudice your water reserves.
Its the same trend in all big Cities, too many tourists, to many airbnb's, higher inflation, shortage of housing. Just a selected few are benefitting from the mass tourism....Basic necessities like housing, public transport, healthcare should at all time be affordable for locals.
Let's ban airbnbs
What about the small business and the airbnb owners?
@@luisfernandor.pdealmeida1229 airbnbs should go to the long term rental market. Small businesses won't be affected, instead small and boutique hotels will pop up everywhere
@@hellomycating
First abolish rent control that enabled their existence.
Tourism cannot be the base of a developed economy... But the canary islands have another problem, they lack other big sources of revenue besides tourism.
A good start would be to ban Airbnb.
allready in the nineties there were murals against mass tourism in gran canaria
Best of luck. Although tourism accounts for 35% of the islands GDP that money only benefits the wealthy. I believe the sustainable tourism model is a better choice for everyone and will allow local people to live with better wages and services while people are still able to come and enjoy a more authentic local experience. And this model of tourism should be applied to every place on this planet. We humans need to appreciate the homes of people and wildlife in a better way. Thank you!
BS. The people in the Canary Islands will quickly realize they want tourists back once things slow down. They are an island and their primary means of income is tourism.
I get most of their points, but how will fewer tourists decrease unemployment, seems to me like it'd just increase it.
As a resident of Massachusetts who has seen Cape Cod destroyed by the same forces of tourism, I can sympathize. The first step is to gain control of housing being used as an economic investment by wealthy outsiders. Some where I read that Corsica has made efforts to forbid outsiders to buy property and in some villages the purchase of a home is limited to those who have proof of continual residences for over ten years. I read this ages ago so I am not quite sure whether it had any success. At the time this seemed logical to me. I am not sure whether it was a success.
its not the tourists (people) its the tourism industry greed.
Last I checked tourism is 35% of their economy, they better find some alternatives.
they are spanish...........handouts from the EU.
I wish they would do this in Phuket. It's just a mess here and seriously harming the environment, not to mention the stress the over crowding is causing people.
That’s how life is. Rich people coming to enjoy your weather. Buying up your assets. 100% support.
That is problem of local government rather than tourist 🎉
i've seen this happen before, and the mass regret that comes with it being fullfilled. The tourism stands for almost 40% of the islands GDP... where other islands (for example in the mediteranian) has done the same with about 15-20% of their GDP being tied to tourism, the general wellbeing of their economy deepdived and social structure aswell as investments dropped in years to come, aswell as mass exodus.
Really, those benefiting from tourism should be paying for the clean up and protection of these islands.
Normally they do in the form of prices and taxes they pay as visitors. All they need to do is raise the price and tourists will look elsewhere.
Maybe triple property taxes for second home owners, and a ban on airbnb
I blame social media. Tourism economies are rarely good. But, they could just have no economy instead.
Non-tourism economies are useless.
This is good. Tourism can be excessive and a country needs to be able to control it.
I do tend to side with the locals on this. But.... please don't blame any construction works on tourism, blame the planning approvals which is run by locals!!
They are in the video screaming, corruption, but they didnt translate that.
In Fernando de Noronha, Brazil, has a tax to visit to preserv the island and a limit od tourists
What's the tax?
@@MeneTekelUpharsin We need to pay tax daily exjoy the island. + flights are quite expensive. So very limited people go there and explore.
I’ve been to 4 of the main islands. Yes, Tenerife and Gran Canaria were built up but Lanzarote and fueteventura appeared to not build upwards and seemed to keep to 1-2 stories and not over populate
Becareful what you wish for !!
Sounds like Bali as well 😢
I/we feel your pain, it has grown, well, over grown in our small NW Florida town, a big company that owns land that entirely surrounds the area has gone nuts and some in our city council have to filling their pockets and short term rentals are killing us.
Though I support the locals 100% in this effort, I think they'll find that it is a double-edged sword. They are out in the middle of the ocean on islands... virtually no other means of creating jobs or income other than tourism-related projects--including building hotels, resorts, etc. Hawaii has this same problem. The locals can't afford to live on their own islands anymore... but without the tourists--who drive up the cost of everything--they'd virtually all be unemployed and uneducated. (Schools are paid for by the billions in tourist dollars / sales / occupancy / rental car taxes... as are roads... food stamps... health care... etc.)
For the Canarians, this is a matter of governance. Who have they been voting for / electing to represent them over the past few decades? Because it is THOSE elected officials who are essentially responsible for what is happening in the islands right now. If the local want a different future--they'll need to elect different leaders--and make different laws and regulations--and ENFORCE them.
We have the same issue in the Caribbean. Except for the too many tourists part.
Tourists mainly go to the southern, sunny parts of Tenerife and Gran Canaria. Even if tourism suddenly stops, do most local really live off on those barren, dry lands in the south?
Have a limit on tourism but not on immigrants from Africa that take all the money that the tourism make
It’s always funny when people who’s ancestors mass immigrated to other countries and replaced the inhabitants cry about the same treatment to them.
Always a good idea to limit the quantity of riff-raff entering your jurisdiction.
The citizens of a place whose economy has nothing to offer but tourism is asking the tourists not to come?
@@GNMi79 only 35% is a big number. that other 65% won't be happy if unemployment rises and wages fall.
@@GNMi79 Well, hopefully more people will spend their money in some other country.
They say they can come, but not too many.
listen to the people, if they want to preserve their natural beauty with less tourists, all for it👍go Spain
Certainly be moaning if there were no tourists, can't win.
They don't say they don't want tourists. They say that they don't want too many tourists.
Looks like a retirement community grudges.
half of europe had to move from the big city because it got 5 times more expensive to live there..
half of spain is emty, i dont get why the locals dont move to another place..
i did that and all my friends did that in copenhagen, its not the end of the world..
im not sure why these locals needs to stay at the beach
turrism allready started going into the country side i spain, because there is not room for the turrist..
i doubt most of them will come back after a vacation in the spaish country side..
i would never go on hollyday in the countryside in spain, been there done that..
that is where you live if you stay longer in spain, i dot get people would live at the beach all the time
people act like going to a better place is bad 🤣
Thats crazy. I am not even sure how 2 million live on this tiny islands
1M people live on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. 1500km^2 or about the size of Grand Canary Island. Never felt cramped when I lived there.
lol, almost forgot that I moved to San Francisco after college. It's 121km^2 and has 800K population. That never felt cramped either.
That's 1/10 the size of Grand Canary Island.
I am in Fuerventura and it looks rocky and volcanic island. Lots of abandoned buildings around the coastal areas and abandoned homes in the interiors. If the tourist stopped coming they have to go and be farmers, fisherman etc..
@@GNMi79 I grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore. While my town had a few big roads for commuting, the single family homes were pretty close together. Not that much different from Oahu. And, next neighborhood over was all rowhouses (townhomes stuck together made of brick).
Ironically, working class locals hate working class tourists. Rich who can afford the five star hotels, welcome.
In this time of mass tourism is a curse to live in a beautiful place.
mass tourism and mass ilegal inmigration, moroco is trying to colonize canarias.. :(
Everyone is welcome to Panamá ☺️❤️🇵🇦🇵🇦
We hace a sunny summer and a Lot of beaches.
You did not understood the report.
@@miguelmelchior986 You did not understood the Angela.
@@chrisalex001 OMG how did You manage to watch Colombians walking around? The horror 😱
No problem, sent them to Colombia. We need them in Colombia 🇨🇴 🙏 🙌.
¿Cuàndo me vas a invitar hermano? Me encanta tu país y llevo varios años queriendo conocerlo. Medellín, Santa Marta, Guatapé, Parque Tayrona, la Ciudad Perdida, Cartagena, San Andres...El problema es que no soporto los vuelos largos y los billetes de avión están por las nubes últimamente.
I hope the government listens! If not, how many people will visit if all the workers stay home!
American citizens don't need to visit other countries from now on, biden open border policies open up for all cultures inside your country.
Nature we can get on media platforms, no problem.
biden fixed it.
The naive privilege of this comment :D
Excellent, give the locals more power and some return on tourism as well
Greetings from Australia
This issue happens everywhere in the world. Living in south of France/Northern Spain it was a blessing when the season was over but it is income for many. Have a friend living in N. Wales - and inundation during certain times of years. Looks like the locals have to take the good with the bad, no matter where you live.
No it doesn't as most places are not dependent on tourism to support themselves.
Their politicians are the problem. It’s a global problem. It’s as if money was discovered the other day the way these guys take kickbacks.
nadie ha visto el vídeo ni entiende absolutamente nada...
Double the prices.
We in Tennessee need this. The entire country is moving here and paving away its beauty day by day.
No one is moving to Tennessee. Stop lying.
Tourism should end there. Let’s see how they cope; economically & financially.
The canary islands have a limit, but not the united states lmao
La inmigración masiva es peor que el turismo
I agree. The Spanish should’ve never entered the Philippines and South America.
It’s funny, in the canaries they want to remain in a permanent subsidized status quo without excessive tourism, without industry, without oil exploration and now the also don’t want offshore wind. The world changes and they also need to adapt, like the rest of Spain. I am all in for regulating tourism and preserving nature but one can allow to do so by being wealthy. And wealth comes from economic activity.
Isolated areas of heavy tourism always have structural issues. High cost of living, lower wages and a volatile economy. Tourism jobs aren't high paying jobs like big corporate jobs.
(Graduated from University of Hawaii)
Be careful what you wish for
you can't have it bothways...
When you say that you mean: Either have too many or too few tourists. They want a normal amount of tourists.
I understand, I will go somewhere else.
I think this is Björk’s fault lol. I remember years ago, her talking about Iceland about how fabulous it was and it was like her own little private world and now it’s a tourist swamp. Then I remember her talking about how she’d found a place in the Canary Islands and how it was free from tourists there lol.
Yes! Please control tourism
And not just in the Canary Islands
This is also about housing prices raising cause of Airbnb…
Everyone is a tourist now …
Back then it was a luxury and you got quality tourists
Now you have uncultured people flocking about and causing chows.
I understand all your concerns , as I to live with all the snowbirds that come and are here for months. It’s to much.
So if they mean "tourism" from Africa, I'm afraid they don't stand a chance 🙄🥴!
I wish them the best...here in my country money goes first..and people last...😐😐
I’m for this and I like travel. People have to live their day to day lives and shouldn’t struggle bc of tourism
they should be able to set there own entry control
They want wealthy tourists, not broke ones.
Fr lol
Respectful and clean at least.., not wealthy.
They want high quality tourist, whatever that is... quiet, wealthy, unassuming, shy, respective what?
I'm a poor tourist I don't have much money but I spend some money to help the economy, i guess that doesn't work, when they're complaining about tourism they should appreciate any tourist who brings in money.
@@eddieBoxer no, thats not how it works.
Como dirían los salseros: No hay cama pa' tanta gente.
I cant blame them. I would feel the same.
If I go to foreign countries, I always try to learn the language, I go where the vernaculars go and I avoid such places of mass tourism like the plague. Canary Islands, Baleares, Barcelona, Paris, Berlin, London, all kinds of tourism hotspots .. nothing to do there!
99 percent of them are tourists or Spanjards that immigrated themselves to Tenerife ; in the last 30 years :)
Good to know how locals feels about us, tourist. I have rebooked my holiday to Greece after watching this video
It‘s not about the tourism, it‘s about Airbnb making people homeless here. We live off tourism here. This video has misinformed people!
@@sarahroberts9606 dont try to explain to him, he have no the intelligence to understand
Great!! we will not miss you
@@jesusgallardo8685 Good to know. We'll stay away. Good luck with your economy.
@@AshwinRamdin Thank you very much 😊
I understand the environmental impact and their annoyance , but some countries don’t have enough tourism and other countries have too much tourism.
In the country I live in there are bigger problems than too much tourism and unfortunately we don’t protest enough.
it is much more than environmental impact and annoyance. over tourism can literally worsen the lives of the local population. for exaple here in greece foreign investors buy buildings in the centre of athens and they turn them into hotels and airbnbs raising the rent market astronomically and locals are forced to move elsewhere in or outside the city. we want the tourists but we do not want our cities and islands to get turned into rich people's playgrounds.
Good for you guys! It also takes away from the culture when visiting with so many tourists around.
Tourism: okay
Mass, unsustainable tourism: not okay
Simple as that
The balance between the economy and well being has been disturbed in favour of the economy. As always. When few benefit and others suffer, you get this. Not only here, but in lots of other places. Venice, Barcelona, Amsterdam, to name a few. This has to be regulated. A free market will only make it worse.
You mean there's no hotel/motel tax? This is a common tool used by cities in Texas and helps build revenue.
Asi es desde Aruba solidario
Y desde Amsterdam, jaja. Good luck, Aruba.
BRAVO !!!!!!!
i stand with the locals, tourists are annoying and reek of bad breath
They also bring in much needed money into a country that doesn’t produce much. Egypt found out how hard things were during covid when their main industry ( tourism ) was taken away.
I assume you mean 'reek'.
@@braxxian Spain doesn't produce much ? ... Tourism based GDP in Spain is about 11% dude. Any small island like the Canary islands needs tourism because they are far away from the mainland and they can't produce much, but Spain on itself does produce. It's right behind Italy in GPD per capita in 2024 and in 2022 it was higher on the list. We are talking the top economies in the world here. You are either trolling or you haven't moved from your basement on a long time
@@masterkraft4746He probably meant Canary island and not Spain.
@@ghostviggen i hope so, but he is comparing it to Egypt so I'm not that sure about it 😂
Good for them. Fighting for their community
If the Canarians want to get rid of the tourists - let them decide to get rid of them! I wonder what else will keep the economy afloat? I don't know much about the Canary Islands! Is there some sort of industry?
in 2 years they will beg for tourists to come back as tourism is no1 of income and many other sectors will die if not tourism!
No some fruit farming because of the climate but tourism is like 80% of what they do.
@@kianlakchi7182 So they want to cut off the majority of income? Or asked differently - what sort of tourism they are going for?
@@gluteusmaximus1657 I Don't know but as a Belgian that has visited Teneriff several times I would agree that they need to plan their tourism better. However ditching tourism (almost) entirely would render these islands extremeeeeely poor.
Guys you don't get it do you
Very simple solution. Hotels, restaurants and bars can all band together and raise prices, and the government can introduce a tourist tax of a few euros per night that gets paid at hotels. And since the British have no ability to handle alcohol, close the bars earlier.
You are barking at the wrong tree. Your politicians are corrupt and lazy. I go around the island and the numbers of abandoned projects are staggering. The abandoned homes too is an eyesore. Raw land doing nothing. What happen to the taxes they obtained from airbnb etc..?
Housing reforms limit one house per person simple
Plus….maybe tourism only specific months out of each year. I’ve heard other places have done similar. Sorry this is happening to your islands.
Not true...
tourists bring 11 billion euros every year...the local government has to introduce a tax so that the local population benefits
Where are the taxes gone?
@@judymckee5992
Looks like rich people are putting 11 billion into their own pockets and controlling the government...like everywhere else in the world.😖
@@GNMi79 , Revenues that is earned has to pay taxes, where have the taxes being spent?
Any tourist places are like this
This people are funny in their islands there is mass unemployement , when they need a job where do they go ? Britain , germany , netherlands , scandinavia , france !! And canarians dont want the people who give them job to go in holidays in the canary islands 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
I 've seen how too many of we Brits behave towards the Spanish and absolutely understand why they want tourism to be better regulated.
It’s a vicious circle, locals try to make money from tourism, then complain it’s out of control when prices go up ( mostly because they put the cost of living up themselves with trying to make as much money possible, look at what’s happened in Ibiza for a start )
They ( locals ) invest in making towns and village hives for Property development, some very poorly controlled and what you end up with is property only lived in 3-4 months a year if lucky, local workers priced out due to investors paying top whack for eye sore developments planted close or in mural villages ( not good at all )
I feel sorry for those affected by the rise in cost etc but when you analyse it they kind of created the environment for it to nurture
They’ll miss the money, enticing and catering to tourists isn’t what they thought
I don’t blame the locals.
They're enthusiastic about killing-off trade and radically reducing the movement of people? Well, well; this seems to be something of a trend. Whatever could be motivating such a sentiment?
Nimbies!
People in Antalya/Turkey has to wake up too
That's all fine but you should also protest for the huge amount of illegal immigrants that enter the Canary Islands and all the problems they bring, especially delinquency.