The FlightRadar24 platform has shared on its Twitter account a screenshot of the flights to the Canary Islands the weekend before Easter, which has caused various reactions among users.
A photo has reopened the classic debate about the archipelago's tourism model. FlightRadar24, the leading flight tracking platform, shared early Saturday Photo in which you can see the number of flights that were on the radar to the Canary Islands from different European countries. He tweet It didn't take long for it to go viral, reaching more than 600.000 views and 4000 likes. But where an intense debate has started has been in the responses to said publication.
El tweet accumulated a multitude of profiles in his responses, from interested outsiders by the image asking what would be the American equivalent of the Canary Islands to tourists present on the islands boasting about the benefits of the Canarian landscape. But, above all, in the responses to the publication the Canaries themselves stood out, questioning the sustainability of the archipelago's tourism model.
“Of course, let them get into trouble and destroy the natural and historical heritage without any consequences”, said one user in response to the post. Others worried due to the environmental cost and questioned the sustainability of a “massive” tourism model both ecologically and economically, referring to the increase in housing prices and the destination of the benefits that tourists leave in the archipelago. Some users even took advantage of the tweet to launch nationalist slogans, urging tourists to "back home" and referring to the archipelago as “the last colony”
The tug of war in the responses to tweet of the platform was constant. One user cited the photo commenting that, “However, we are the community with the most severe poverty in Spain” what received responses like “Well, imagine what it would be like without them,” referring to tourists or others in which reference was made to the evolution of Canarian society in recent decades thanks to tourism, which began a exchange of data and statements with other users opposed to the current tourism model.
Despite the tension in the responses to the publication of FlightRadar24, could also be found tweets of tourists counting the hours to visit the archipelago and conciliatory locals with the current tourism model stating that, as long as they respect the island, all tourists are welcome.
