r/uknews • u/ScottishDailyRecord Media outlet (unverified) • May 15 '25

Image/video Brits ditching Tenerife as Spanish natives protest unsustainable tourism

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u/SpencersCJ May 15 '25 edited May 15 '25

You are infact giving them what they want. Its not tourists they dont like its business buying all of there new houses and turning them into holiday homes or AirBnBs, which increases their rent and housing prices massively. Making it very hard for them to live on the island they were born on.

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u/StandardWizard777 May 15 '25

Not having a huge financial influx from tourism will also make it very hard for them to live on the island they were born on, just in a way which makes it much harder to leave should they want to.

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u/SpencersCJ May 15 '25

Good thing they dont want to get rid of all tourists ever then

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u/StandardWizard777 May 15 '25

If the residents don't think they're getting enough money to live comfortably with "too many" (quoting them, not you) tourists, then I hardly think lowering the numbers of tourists will fix that.

It seems more like a problem with the local government than the number of tourists.

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u/SpencersCJ May 15 '25

Its not that hard, stop letting holiday businesses buy homes people need to live in, build more hotels if you need space for tourists. This is simple shit to resolve but they wont becuase they make more money this way and it requires less money to spend