Brits ditching Tenerife as Spanish natives protest unsustainable tourism



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23 comments

  1. Whilst I understand the frustration of the local residents of these places, what do they think will happen if tourists just suddenly stop visiting like they want?

  2. I see this issue similar to how I see immigration.

    Look at the issue differently. Tourists are not taking houses that should be for for locals. Governments are not building enough houses for locals.

    This is blaming the symptom, not the cause. It’s Luke being angry at a rash, and not at the nettle. Stop walking through nettles and start building more houses.

  4. They don’t want us to go there? Ok we won’t go there, plenty of other choices. I’m sure your economy will be just fine without tourism.

  5. They should just make it illegal for foreigners to own property on the island. They need tourism, it’s Airbnb style short term lets that are angry with.

  6. Hotels for tourists and houses/ apartments for locals just get rid of Airbnbs wouldn’t that keep everyone happy?

  7. It’s not surprising news, if people feel unwelcome they won’t go and then they can deal with the lack on income from tourists.

  8. Just cancelled my holiday, first time away in years and don’t want to end up in the middle of this nonsense.

  9. How would you all feel about a show for foreigners like “a place in the sun” where people are encouraged to buy up all our properties for 2 weeks a year..

  10. Some areas like Barcelona can afford to try and reduce tourism. They have a diverse economy and can afford to try to reduce footfall and cruise ship freuqncy, it’ll be a hit but they can take that hit.

    Tenerife cannot. If it reduces tourism by 30% then it loses 18% of its entire GDP and potentially 12% of its jobs.

  11. If that is how they want to do it then that is how it is. I dont think we need to be bitter about it

  12. Hopefully, they get what they want and AirBnB like services are pushed out of the area or banned altogether. The sooner its banned worldwide the better

  14. Shocked to see an article this week saying that last year, Tenerife attracted 7.2 million tourists while the whole of Brazil brought in only 6.6 million! Tenerife is exactly 0.02% the size of Brazil. One can see how it must be irksome for the Tenerife natives to host so many people. There are only 965,750 natives living in Tenerife dealing with over 7,000,000 tourists while there are 211.1 Million people in Brazil who never see a tourist except maybe for Rio and Sao Paulo.

  15. I’m just back from Tenerife and didn’t happen to witness any issues – however, the place is a dive (around the south anyway). It’s completely gone to ruin since I was last there 20 years ago. Full of British bars and shite drink/food. I wouldn’t recommend anyone visiting the likes of Los Cristianos or Las Americas (Costa Adeje is much better but still not worth a visit).

  16. I get what they want to do because living somewhere with mass tourism probably isn’t great but it will end up hurting them when there’s alot less jobs in all industries around there and alot less money coming in

    Potentially more empty buildings as well. They should look doing something about holiday let’s and push people towards staying in hotels

  17. For the people who live there, their country, their choice. Hopefully they can expand on their other sources of income like agriculture, fishing and industry. They’re not usually things you think when you think of Tenerife because most of us are guilty of viewing it as a sunny holiday destination and little else.

    I’m from Cornwall where our population doubles in summer, and that’s bad enough. I don’t work in a business related to tourism but I still get told regularly that I wouldn’t survive without tourists!

  18. Lmao no Tenerife holiday then. Gladly will go somewhere else and see how these areas do without their entire industry keeping them afloat

  19. The only positive thing about the Covid pandemic is how much it humbled those touristic areas. Back then, they were going bankrupt and wish they could sell just one beer

  20. Some of these places absolutely survive on tourism because there isn’t anything else. Great way to reduce the locals to poverty.

  21. Important distinction that when they say they don’t want holiday makers, in reality they don’t want British holiday makers.

  22. Quite sad really. My family sold our holiday home in Santa pola because of these issues this year and the rising costs. We all speak Spanish and integrated in the society. I’ve been going there for 26 years so not all brits are like this.

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