OVER-TOURISM REBELLION: Visitors Cower in Their Hotels and Airbnb Rentals as Thousands Protest in Spanish Canary Islands

Citizens from Spain’s Canary Islands out in force against over-tourism.

The issue of over-tourism is one that is plaguing communities all over Europe and around the world.

In balancing the need of income from tourism with maintaining the quality of life of the local populations, the business logic is always privileged, to the detriment of the people who live in these tourist hotspots.

In the Spanish Canary Islands, thousands of anti-tourism protesters have taken to the streets en masse.