Anti-tourist protesters set to take to streets in Malaga as hols hotspot becomes ‘unlivable’ & visitors told ‘go home’ | 811KBZ1 | 2024-05-06 19:08:01
Anti-tourist protesters set to take to streets in Malaga as hols hotspot becomes 'unlivable' & visitors told 'go home' | 811KBZ1 | 2024-05-06 19:08:01
ANOTHER anti-tourism protest is brewing in Spain as demonstrators prepare to hit the streets of Malaga in less than a month.
Locals in the Costa del Sol city are demanding the end of the "touristification" of the popular holiday hotspot.
Frustrated locals in Malaga claim they are being priced out of their own neighbourhoods – and more properties are being converted to hotels and tourist rentals offering short stays to visiting foreigners.
Post-pandemic, a large number of remote workers have been moving to Spain for a cheaper cost of living, The Local reports.
And expats are often earning higher wages than locals – leaving them struggling to compete.
Protesters are now planning to the streets on June 29 and are set to march with the slogan: "For decent housing and against the processes of touristification and precariousness of life."
Furious demonstrators said the city has become "unlivable".
Dani Drunko, a bar owner in Malaga who was kicked out of his decade-old home to make room for tourists, said: "Malaga city centre has been going downhill for a long time.
"If something in my bar breaks, I don't have a hardware store to buy anything [because] the tourists don't need to buy screws."
Adding voice to the growing discontent among the locals, Dani Pérez, a local politician wrote on X/Twitter: "You walk the streets of Málaga and it is practically impossible to find a residential building that does not have a lockbox [for tourist rentals]."
He accused the city's mayor, Paco de la Torre, of "not lifting a finger for the people of Malaga" and "expelling them from the city where they were born".
Some fed-up residents have put angry messages outside of the building and around the town centre, calling for tourists to "go home".
<!-- End of Brightcove Player --> Stickers on tourist apartments feature phrases including "stinks of tourists", "go f***ing home" and "this was my home".
It comes after thousands of people took to the streets in Tenerife to demand restrictions on holidaymakers after telling Brits to "go home".
The anti-tourist hordes filled a square in the capital brandishing banners including some that read "you enjoy, we suffer" in English.
More than 15,000 people waved Canary Islands' flags and blew horns to make a deafening noise in the capital Santa Cruz.
Protests also took place at the same time in other popular Canary Islands including Lanzarote and Gran Canaria.
Banners at the mass protest read: "Where is the money from tourism?" and "Tourist moratorium now."
The marches were organised under the slogan "The Canary Islands have a limit."
Anti-tourist protestors want the authorities to paralyse two projects including one which involves the construction of a five-star hotel by one of Tenerife's last virgin beaches.
They are also looking for more protection from mass tourism – to help with the local environment, traffic and housing issues.
Other demands include the protection of natural spaces, a tourist tax and better working conditions for hotel cleaners, who joined today's protest in Santa Cruz as they insisted to the local press: "We are not slaves."
Organisers claim the march hit up to 50,000 participants.
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