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 »
Luxury cruise ships like this one docked in Falmouth, Jamaica will take tourists to learn about a darker side of the history of the British Empire – ISTOCK Jamaica will preserve British colonial sites as slavery monuments in a bid to boost the “dark tourism” industry on the island. Local activists have led demands for… Read More »
Crown Prince wants to invest nearly $800 billion to build a world-class tourism industry in Saudi Arabia – Getty/iStock “Are you going somewhere nice?” I ask the sales assistant at Boots as I hand her the hefty tube of sunscreen on a cold January afternoon. I give him an honest answer, which means I’m not… Read More »