FEARS are growing that anti-tourism protests raging across the Canary Islands could hit another Brit holiday hotspot.Fede Fuster, head of local hotel association HOSBEC, said the demonstrations across the Atlantic archipelago, showed there were serious problems that needed to be addressed.
Fuster fumed that those involved who were pointing the finger at hoteliers were confusing the “righteous for sinners”. “What used to be residential land is now being hotelised for the benefit of a few who, moreover, operate with the most absolute impunity. Six men and women affiliated to the protest platform - which rallies under the banner of "The Canary Islands have a limit" - are now on the 17th day of their hunger strike.
This week, a leading Tenerife politician urged British and Irish tourists looking for cheap sunshine breaks to go elsewhere for their vacations. Locals have been fuming that they are "fed-up" with "low quality" Brit tourists who only come for theSome protesters are claiming that their anger is directed at the government rather than tourists as they ask for change.and that they are sick of the noise, traffic and rubbish that accompany the avalanche of vacationers that visit every year.