Tourists go home”: Inside the angry protests on Spain’s holiday islands

In Tenerife, where tourism drives the economy, locals protest an extractive model that they say is pricing them out and eroding their identity.

A sharp on-the-ground report on why holiday paradise residents are telling tourists to go home.

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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