Sailing from its home port of Southampton, P&O Cruises flies the British cruise flag with wallet-friendly holidays designed to suit UK tastes. It offers ‘no-flight’ cruises as well as affordable fly-by-night holidays to the Caribbean, Northern Europe, North America and the Mediterranean from London and nine regional airports. The line’s seven ships have Britons in… Read More »
Thousands of people will join protests across the Canary islands on Saturday to call for an urgent rethink of the Spanish archipelago’s tourism industry and a freeze on tourist numbers, arguing that the decades-old current model is making life unaffordable and environmentally unsustainable for local people. . Protests under banners “Canarias tiene un limite” (The… Read More »
Anti-tourism protesters in La Laguna, Tenerife – SOLARPIX.COM The Canary Islands tourism minister has urged British holidaymakers not to cancel their holidays as locals prepare to stage anti-tourism protests across the archipelago on Saturday. Tensions have been rising in recent weeks over water use, lack of housing and pollution that locals say is linked to… Read More »
Ben Ross enjoys a walk in La Gomera – Ben Ross It’s a cliché that Tenerife is all about mass tourism, with all the cultural challenges that often entails. Of course, the numerous resorts of Los Cristianos and Playa de las Américas on the south coast attract us by the planeload (2.3 million British tourists… Read More »