It is not a consumer rights issue, no one disputes that. But to the tourismphobia that exists in Tenerife, the germ of this phenomenon on the islands, is added one of the things that is supposed to bring more confidence to the destination: the tour operators. Yesi PwC and KPMG in 2019 blamed Gran Canaria hoteliers in the London commercial court for the collapse of Thomas Cook due to its crazy prices, now at an electoral moment a financial crisis arrives in the third largest tour operator in the EU: Fti. The worst thing is that there are European elections on Sunday. Canarian Coalition and PNV They may be the parties that bear the brunt of Podemos and the Nueva Canarias alliance with Sumar.
Fed up with the housing shortage, traffic, noise, pollution and garbage, several of the most emblematic areas of Tenerife have become invisible, crowded, unsafe and uncomfortable places for visitors to local residents. The beauty, serenity and simplicity of many of the most idealized and coveted destinations in Tenerife, where the problem really lies, is reported to simply not be able to survive millions of annual visits and are changing their tourist campaigns to generate allergy among tourists.
On April 20, for the first time in the history of the archipelago, tens of thousands of residents of the seven Canary Islands joined the thesis of environmentalists who emerged in Tenerife to protest against mass tourism. Their slogans included "Tenerife has a limit", "People live here" and "We don't want to see our island die". Protesters demand an ecotax, limits on tourist arrivals, a tourism moratorium and control of the construction of tourism-related projects. "The authorities must immediately stop this corrupt and destructive model that exhausts resources and makes the economy more precarious," declared Antonio Bullón, one of the leaders of the protest.
