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Every winter a large cohort of Australians head north for the European summer. But with growing tourism hostility sweeping many visitor hotspots, they may not be getting such a warm welcome.

An influx of holidaymakers is driving up housing costs and depleting resources, residents say.

Residents of Spains Canary Islands took to the streets in a massive demonstration against the overwhelming effects of mass tourism. | Travel

Thousands of people protested in Tenerife on Saturday, calling for the Spanish island to temporarily limit tourist arrivals to stem a boom in short-term holiday rentals and hotel construction that... -April 20, 2024 at 11:41 am EDT - MarketScreener

By Borja Suarez GRAN CANARIA, Spain (Reuters) – Spanish coastguards rescued 124 migrants, including young children and a person needing a wheelchair, from two wooden boats in the seas off the Canary Islands on Thursday. One boat carrying 66 people was located 10 nautical miles south of Gran Canaria, Spain’s Red Cross said. The second,…

Two people died as they attempted to reach Spains Canary Islands on a boat with 40 migrants on board, while four others were evacuated by helicopter to hospital in serious condition, the Spanish... -March 12, 2024 at 05:35 am EDT - MarketScreener

British tourists flying in for a winter break to the Canary Islands are blithely unaware of the plight of the thousands arriving by sea just a stone's throw away

El Hierros crystal-clear waters and abundance of marine life have made this island in Spains Canaries archipelago one of the worlds top scuba diving spots.... -November 24, 2023 at 06:07 am EST - MarketScreener

Orphaned during a coup in his homeland Guinea, teenager Moussa Camara took to sea in a wooden boat with 240 other migrants, enduring an 11-day voyage, half of it without food and fresh water, before reaching the Canary Islands. Yet when Camara made it on Oct. 27 exhausted, famished and nursing sores from the sun, another problem beset him: police registered him as an adult and he was not allowed into a centre for minors with the better opportunities available. "We are children ... they be...

Over 1,000 migrants arrived in Spains Canary Islands in a single day on Saturday after making the dangerous journey from Africa, including on a boat carrying 320 people that rescuers said was the... -October 21, 2023 at 05:21 pm EDT - MarketScreener