Скачать или смотреть “Tourists go home”: Inside the angry protests on Spain’s holiday islands

In scenes echoed across southern Europe, Spain’s Canary Islands are suffering from a crisis of too many tourists – 18 million are projected to visit in 2025.
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On Tenerife, where tourism accounts for 35% of the economy and which draws the largest number of mostly British holidaymakers, it is tourists, not immigrants, who are seen as a threat to local identity. As protests across the Mediterranean continue, local people vent their anger at an exploitative, extractive and unsustainable tourism model. But is it still possible to change course, and are political leaders listening?

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Chapters:
00:00 – Anti-tourist protests erupt on Tenerife
01:22 – The cost of living crisis on the Canary Islands
02:37 – Holidaymakers and locals react to the mass tourism protests
06:24 – A new holiday resort show Tenerife's overtourism problems
08:34 – La Palma and the goal of sustainable tourism
10:44 – A politician with the chance to do things differently

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