More than 23,000 people return to the streets to obtain restrictions on tourism in Canary Islands | The economy
Thousands of people across the Canorian island They left the street for the third time this Sunday to protest the impacts of the model of the tourism industry, living the best data in its history. The most massive march in Tenerife, According to a government delegation data, 15,000 people met. In the Los Palmas de Gran Canaria, this appointment brought another 5,000, 2,000 in Langarot, 500 in Fuertavevena or 500 in La Palma.
“Mass tourism removes our homes,” “Canary islands are not sold, not loved and justified”, “Government of the Canary Islands Real Estate” or “Where are they rented floors.” Such slogans traveled this Sunday to the Pacio de Los Contours de Los Palmas de Gran Kanaria – where the attendees screamed and whistles every time he passed through a hotel – or Santa Cruz de Tenerife’s Weiler Square. They are The same scenes that have historical a year ago The expressions of 54,000 people in the islands It later reflects the difficulties in protesting against tourists across Spain and accessing housing.
A year later, not the island only Ended in the best quarter in its historyBut this is 21 months in a row than million monthly foreign tourists. In 2010, the society received 10.43 million visitors. In 2024, the data increased to the 17.7 million -historical method of record -Brazil and the Dominican Republic as many.
Fatima Perez and her friend Nora said, “Where do I go to the tourists,” two are newly wrapped up The descending soccer team is Yudi Los Palmas. “But it doesn’t look at society. Only we have noticed the consequences. The benefit is taken by others.” The Canorian population supports one of the lowest salaries in Spain. It is too much Lost in the last two years of purchasing powerOne of the highest poverty rate (31.2%, compared to 33.8%in the previous year) and the fourth highest unemployment rate (13.5%).
“We have already lived everything,” Sarah Fernandez and her husband Pablo explained. “But we are here for our children and our granddaughter. They can’t pay a place to live despite the job.” Behind Madrid, Balarik Islands and Bask Country, evidence that the fourth society is with the average price of buying canary islands. According to the latest data published Idealist real estate. It is the fifth high in Spain.
“Everything is getting worse,” they read many organizers in March at Santa Cruz de Tenerif. “Tourist stress continues to grow, the number of new residents is increasing, inequality and poverty shootUrban Ullation Homes are further sucked by SUFF. We lose our natural heritage – the world is unique – at terrible speed, and in the service of foreign ulation hangings. Fall islands, “they warn.
In their manifesto, managers claim to be “the instant and accurate paralysis of illegal projects such as the hotel” Tissues, d yala or engine circuit of the soul ” On the island. In addition, they seek the “hotel temporary ban and real vacation”, which is a residential law that makes people’s “brake on a huge arrival.” “This is not about rejection, it is social and environmental justice to guarantee good life on Canary Islands.”
They mentioned the law that guarantees the right to good and accessible homes, which reduces ulation hagas, more ways for the protection of “real ecotes” and natural places. .
In recent days, members of Canorian executive, President, Fernando Covizo (Canorian Coalition), or Tourism and Employment Minister Jessica de Leone have admitted that they will study the way to reach tourism workers. The nationalist leader, in fact, went to Brussels this week to look into the possibility of introducing residential law. The state works through the basic control of municipalities to impose conditions and, in parallel, the European Union may impose more compulsory requirements for gaining a property. Cavizo, once mentioned entrepreneurs who upload salaries to their workers.
On the other hand, De Leone, this week, has admitted that it is necessary to “talk and discuss” taxes in this field in discussion tables for reform of tourism law, for which he invited parliamentary groups to provide them with them. “It is not easy to increase solutions rates or temporary bans,” he said.
Covizo or Leone words do not calm the protesters. “Those who govern have decided to continue turning to us,” the readers of the manifesto of March this Sunday said. “They did not open the dialog channels or they did not show political will to attend a civil movement that promoted the great performance of our history. The answer was unruly.”
Augustan Sanchez has a bar in Los Palmas de Gran Canaria. He runs only among the protesters and reveals the challenge of complaints from the rent price to sea pollution. “Most people have come to invest, and this is impossible for residents already.” And the arguments in summary. “Let’s see what people are working for us once.”
