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Mass protests in Canary Islands decry overtourism

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MADRID — Tens of thousands of demonstrators hit the streets of Spain’s Canary Islands on Saturday to demand changes to the model of mass tourism they say is overwhelming the Atlantic archipelago. Rallying under the slogan “The Canary Islands have a limit”, demonstrators began protesting at midday (1100 GMT), with flag-waving crowds packing the streets of the main towns across all of the archipelago’s seven islands. An estimated 57,000 people joi…

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BBC News

“The Canary Islands have a limit”: the massive protests against mass tourism that they say overwhelm the islands - La Opinion

Residents of the famous Spanish archipelago took to the streets against a model of tourism development which, they say, is harmful to the environment and to their lifestyle.

15 days ago·United Kingdom

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Korrespondent.net

Protests against mass tourism took place on the Canary Islands in Spain

The protests were organized by environmental organizations of the islands in the run-up to the peak of the summer holiday season.

14 days ago·Kyiv, Ukraine

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Quotidiano Nazionale

"Mass tourism outbreak." Canadians revolt

"Canary Islands has a limit!" is the slogan that tens of thousands of people chanted in simultaneous courts organized on the eight islands of the Canary Islands, in a rally to protest mass tourism and its consequences: exploitation of the environment and natural resources and a development model that disrupts and flattens the landscape. At the end of the day, local authorities talked about 60,000 people among the participants.

15 days ago·Italy

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Frankfurter Allgemeine

Mass tourism: Why there are protests on the Canary Islands

On all eight Canary Islands, tens of thousands of inhabitants demonstrated under the motto “The Canary Islands have their borders”. They have enough of mass tourism that makes their lives unbearable and destroys nature.

15 days ago·Frankfurt, Germany

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IOL Portugal

In the Canary Islands, thousands took to the streets against tourism that benefits nothing.

Thousands of people protested this Saturday in Tenerife against the tourism boom in the Canary Islands, saying the economic model is destroying the natural resources of the islands and making local life unbearable, and the drop of water was the construction of another hotel on the beach, which led to several activists going on hunger strike.

15 days ago·Portugal

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