The presence of the activists in the media together with the employers' association achieved the success of the demonstrations in the Canary Islands against tourism this weekend. Even in Berlin there was a concentration of islanders asking for a business model similar to that of the Franco years, that is, without the presence of foreign capital and without the presence of non-national labor in positions of responsibility in the sector, that is, the autarchy.
In Las Palmas everything was mixed. From the matter of Chira Soria, which belongs to San Bartolomé de Tirajana, to criticism for the weight that non-traditional economic sectors have in tourism investments. In the United Kingdom, The Times is right when it points out that it is a problem in Tenerife that has contaminated the image of the rest of the archipelago: "Tenerife is fighting against real estate companies that threaten the last virgin beaches," it said this Saturday. The Guardian has spoken of "massive protest against the unsustainable model of tourism."
With all the support of the activists in the media and the employers' association, "the largest concentration has taken place in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with about 30.000 people. Meanwhile, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria about 14.000 people supported the initiative of ' The Canary Islands have a limit' and in Arrecife (Lanzarote) about 9.000. Furthermore, in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura) the demonstration had 2.800 attendees, in San Sebastián de La Gomera about 300 people and in Valverde (El Hierro) 120," reports EP. .
