ANOTHER anti-tourism protest is brewing in Spain as protesters prepare to take to the streets of Malaga in less than a month.
Furious about the impacts of the mass tourism model, residents of the Costa del Sol are now demanding an end to the “touristification” of the holiday access point.
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Frustrated Malaga residents say they are being priced out of their own neighborhoods – and more properties are being converted into hotels and tourist rentals, offering short stays to foreign visitors.
Following the pandemic, a large number of remote workers moved to Spain in search of a cheaper cost of living, The place reports.
And expatriates often earn higher salaries than locals – leaving them struggling to compete.
Protesters will take to the streets on June 29th and will march with the motto: “For decent housing and against the processes of touristification and precarious living conditions”.
Angry protesters said the city had become “uninhabitable”.
Some fed up residents posted angry messages outside the building and in the town center, urging tourists to “go home”.
Stickers on tourist apartments feature phrases such as “it stinks of tourists”, “go home” and “this was my home”.
It comes after thousands of people took to the streets in Tenerife to demand restrictions on tourists after telling Brits to “go home”.
Anti-tourist hordes filled a square in the capital brandishing banners, including some that said “you like it, we suffer” in English.
More than 15,000 people waved Canary Island flags and blew horns to make a deafening noise in the capital, Santa Cruz.
Protests also took place at the same time in other popular Canary Islands, including Lanzarote and Gran Canaria.
Banners at the mass protest read: “Where is the money of tourism?” and “Tourist moratorium now”.
The marches were organized under the motto “The Canary Islands have a limit”.
Anti-tourist protesters want authorities to halt two projects, including one involving the construction of a five-star hotel on one of Tenerife’s last virgin beaches.
They are also looking for more protection against mass tourism – to help with local environmental, traffic and housing issues.
Other demands include the protection of natural spaces, tourism tax and better working conditions for hotel cleaners, who joined today’s protest in Santa Cruz by insisting to the local press: “We are not slaves.”
Organizers claim the march reached up to 50,000 participants.
Why are Tenerife residents turning against the British?
RESIDENTS of the largest Canary island appear to be at war with UK tourists as they target visitors with anti-tourism graffiti and emerging local campaigns.
Locals are furious because they are “fed up” with “low quality” British tourists who only come for the cheap beer, burgers and sunbathing.
Now, they are demanding a tourist tax, fewer flights to the island and a crackdown on foreigners buying homes.
Some protesters say their anger is directed at the government and not tourists, as they call for change.
They claim that AirBnBs and other vacation rentals are increasing the cost of living and that they are tired of the noise, traffic and trash that accompany the flood of vacationers who visit them every year.
Jaime Coello, president of the Telesforo Bravo Foundation, said: “The quality of the tourism product is being destroyed by investors and the regional government.”
Waves of anti-tourist graffiti have been sprayed across the island to tell Brits they are not welcome.
Bitter messages outside tourist centers read “Your paradise, our misery” and “Tourists go home”.
“Local residents are forced to move and YOU are responsible for this,” read an angry printed sign.
Another said: “Tourists go home!”
The growing chaos, coupled with hatred towards visitors, is now scaring British tourists into holidaying in Tenerife.
And Jorge Marichal, head of a hotel chain in Tenerife, revealed that Brits were calling in fear of not being safe on holiday on the island.
He said: “One of the problems I’m having is that customers are starting to call and ask what’s going on here and if it’s safe.”
Although the hotel owner said he understands the pain of the local population, he added that being “anti-tourist” is not the best option.
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