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American tourists are flocking to Tenerife in record numbers. 5.6 million tourists visited the Spanish island in 2023, and more than 26,000 came from the United States between January and September of 2023. This marks a significant 35 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2022 and a 51 per cent growth over the 2022 summer. These figures are more than double the number of US visitors from January to September 2019. Tenerife, already known as a luxury destination for Europeans, attracts around 5 million tourists annually. Tourists from the United Kingdom comprise the largest segment, ...
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As Europe nears peak summer season, tourist hotspots are increasingly feeling the strain. In some places, like Spain, locals have long been growing weary of the ‘sun, sex and sangria’ tourism certain destinations attract. But now the issue is more than just nuisance behaviour. Rising visitor numbers are putting pressure on health services, waste management, water supplies and housing at the expense of residents. Increased construction of hotel and housing developments is endangering historic sites, biodiversity and natural resources. Recently, frustrations have boiled over in several European ...
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Thousands of people protested in Tenerife on Saturday calling for the Spanish island to temporarily limit tourist arrivals. Holding placards reading "People live here" and "We don't want to see our island die", they're urging for a stem to short-term holiday rentals and hotel construction which are driving up housing costs for locals. The protesters are being backed by environmental groups including Greenpeace, WWF, Ecologists in Action, Friends of the Earth and SEO/Birdlife. "We are not against tourism, we are against a model that has led us to the deterioration of our land, of our people bec...
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Tens of thousands of people demonstrated against mass tourism on Spain's Canary Islands on Saturday under the slogan "The Canary Islands have a limit." A total of 55,000 demonstrators on the eight inhabited islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Africa demanded an upper limit on the number of tourists and called for affordable housing for locals, the state TV station RTVE and the newspaper El País reported. They waved posters that said: "Tourism increases my rent" and "Paradise is not made with concrete." The protesters were also calling for effective monitoring of the regulations...
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Tens of thousands of people demonstrated against mass tourism on Spain's Canary Islands on Saturday under the slogan "The Canary Islands have a limit." A total of 55,000 demonstrators on the eight inhabited islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Africa demanded an upper limit on the number of tourists and called for affordable housing for locals, the state TV station RTVE and the newspaper El País reported. They waved posters that said: "Tourism increases my rent" and "Paradise is not made with concrete." The protesters were also calling for effective monitoring of the regulations...
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Tens of thousands of people demonstrated against mass tourism on Spain's Canary Islands on Saturday under the slogan "The Canary Islands have a limit." A total of 55,000 demonstrators on the eight inhabited islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Africa demanded an upper limit on the number of tourists and called for affordable housing for locals, the state TV station RTVE and the newspaper El País reported. They waved posters that said: "Tourism increases my rent" and "Paradise is not made with concrete." The protesters were also calling for effective monitoring of the regulations...
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Demand for octopus as food has grown significantly in recent decades. Yet with concerns around overfishing restricting the number of wild octopuses caught, businesses have been researching how they can farm them. Crucially, octopuses are naturally solitary animals who will inevitably suffer in farm conditions. Confined in cramped indoor tanks of water, these intelligent, unique and sentient wild animals would cause them immense distress, causing aggression, and ultimately even cannibalism. They are also carnivorous, meaning they need to be fed wild fish in captivity — an unsustainable practice...
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Spain’s coastguard has rescued more than 400 migrants travelling in seven boats and trying to reach Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and Tenerife. 52 women and 33 children were among those trying to reach Spain’s Canary Island group. The biggest number of arrivals was logged in Lanzarote, where 209 people of sub-Saharan and North African descent arrived. "The first boat arrived early today with 48 people on board and now three boats have arrived and have been picked up,” said Enrique Espinosa, the manager of Lanzarote’s Security and Emergency Consortium. More and more migrants are making...
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Residents in the Canary Islands are planning protests and strikes in a backlash against overtourism. Campaigners say the unsustainable influx of visitors is ruining life in the holiday hotspot. One activist group on the island of Tenerife has planned a hunger strike over the construction of two new hotels. Others report locals sleeping in cars and caves due to soaring house prices. Graffiti has appeared on buildings and a rental car telling tourists to 'go home'. In 2023, the archipelago attracted 14.1 million foreign visitors, a record for the island group. Canary Island residents plan hunger...
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As Europe continues to confront large-scale irregular migration from Africa via dangerous routes, the Canary Islands are bearing the brunt of a particular surge. According to Frontex – the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders – there were more than 6,600 irregular crossings via the Western African migratory route in January, 10 times the figure reported one year ago. In stark contrast, Frontex said the number of irregular border crossings into the EU fell to nearly 14,000 in January, down about one-third from December, bringing the number roughl...
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