A protest is planned in Santa Cruz de Tenerife against mass tourism (Image: Getty)
Protesters are planning another demonstration against in a holiday hotspot loved by Brits.
Campaign group, Canarias Tiene un Límite (The Canary Islands Have a Limit), is staging a protest in on Sunday (February 16).
Members of the protest group plan to disrupt a conference in the port city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife where chiefs from the German tourism industry are due to meet.
Canarias Tiene un Límite claims mass tourism is “destroying” the and describes as “completely unsustainable” the 18 million tourists who visited in 2024.
The group said in a statement posted on social media: “There is no type of limit, and tourism continues to grow uncontrollably, leading the islands towards environmental and social collapse.
Canary Islands’ locals want fewer tourists (Image: Getty)
“We continue swimming in sewage and enduring hours of traffic jams every day, while tourism does not stop growing and these problems get worse.”
Sunday’s protest outside the FVW Travel Talk conference will be the third since April last year when across the Canary Islands.
The group urged supporters to join a rally in Santa Cruz de Tenerife’s Ramblas area in front of the Mencey Hotel in a bid to “boycott the employers”.
Protesters have said previously they blame local governments on the islands for overtourism rather than the tourists themselves.
Some locals want tourist numbers to be reduced, arguing mass tourism puts undue pressure on services, the environment and housing, with so many properties used for short term lets preventing islanders from buying.
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Tenerife has seen mass demonstrations since last year (Image: Getty)
The owners of businesses, including hotels, bars and restaurants, argue visitors are needed to fuel the archipelago’s economy and generate jobs.
Canarias Tiene un Límite insisted in its statement online that tourism “continues to destroy the coast” as hotels and housing estates “for foreigners” are built.
It stressed the current approach to tourism doesn’t generate wealth for local people and islanders find it “practically impossible” to rent a house while tourists find “hundreds” of holiday lets to choose from.
Group members maintained that despite past protests, the Government of the Canary Islands has not listened to locals.
They threatened that Sunday’s protest will be the first of several “acts” aimed at boycotting mass tourism.