Activists yesterday began an indefinite hunger strike in Tenerife as part of a protest against the effects of mass tourism on island life.
Nearly a dozen campaigners for
reformas en zaragoza a more
sustainable type of tourism have gone ahead with their threat outside a church in the historic city of La Laguna.
The protest has been organised by a platform called Canarias Se Agota, which in English translates literally as 'The Canary Islands Are Exhausted' and is linked to several associations including ecologist groups.
The hunger strikers want the authorities to halt two tourist projects, one involving the construction of a five-star hotel by one of Tenerife's last virgin beaches called La Tejita.
They also want local and regional politicians to change the tourist model to protect the island from the worst excesses of mass tourism including sea pollution, traffic gridlock and lack of cheap affordable housing linked to the pushing-up of property prices because of Airbnb-style holiday lets.
Activists yesterday began an indefinite hunger strike in Tenerife as part of a protest against the effects of mass tourism on island life
The protest has been organised by a platform called Canarias Se Agota, which in English translates literally as 'The Canary Islands Are Exhausted'
The names of those taking part in the hunger strike have so far been kept secret and they are not expected to give interviews
The hunger strikers want the authorities to halt two tourist projects, one involving the construction of a five-star hotel by one of Tenerife's last virgin beaches called La Tejita
Canarians are resorting to desperate measures to limit the number of tourists frequenting local beauty spots, spraying anti-tourism graffiti
The holiday resort made headline news last month after a series of graffiti messages were scrawled on walls and buildings, reading 'tourists go home'
The names of those taking part in the hunger strike have so far been kept secret and they are not expected to give interviews while the extreme protest continues in a square called Plaza de la
Concepcion outside a church of the same name.