Chanting and whistling, they waved placards reading ‘The Canary Islands are not up for sale!’ and ‘Respect my home’.
A woman uses a megaphone during a demonstration for a change in the tourism model in the Canary Islands Tens of thousands of people hit the streets in Tenerife today to protest against tourism on the island. Chanting and whistling, they waved placards emblazoned with slogans reading ‘The Canary Islands are not up for sale!’ and ‘Respect my home’. One demonstrator said: ‘It’s not a message against the tourist, but against a tourism model that doesn’t benefit this land and needs to be changed.
Canary Islands president Fernando Clavijo said on Friday he felt ‘proud’ that the region was a leading Spanish tourist destination, but acknowledged that more controls were needed as the sector continues to grow. ‘We can’t keep looking away. Otherwise, hotels will continue to open without any control,’ he told a press conference. In the Gran Canaria capital Las Palmas, marchers carried banners in Spanish which said: ‘It’s not phobia, it’s love for my land.
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