Lanzarote Protest (April 20th 2024)
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- čas přidán 19. 04. 2024
- The much publicised protest "The Canaries have a limit," took place in Arrecife in Lanzarote on 20th April. We were there to explain to you what the protest was all about, show you video of the protest, the people and the placards, and sum it all up for you at the end, as we walked back to our car.
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Very legitimate protest, agree with their concerns
We'll done balina the fight must go on keep it lit 🇮🇪
Thank you Michael for a very interesting video, my wife and I have been visiting the island for many years and have seen the increase in tourism and fully understand the issues that the protesters were voicing.
Similar issues we experienced whilst we lived in Cornwall, second home buyers, locals not being able to afford to rent let alone buy,the increase in the population during the holiday season put tremendous strain on the infrastructure, emergency services and resources!
Thank you for your time & effort of filming the protest, greatly appreciated..
This struggle is legitimate. I knew Lanzarote 30 years ago, and seeing what this island has become fills me with sadness. It used to be clean, secure, with no need for police presence since tourists were respectful, being nature lovers. Lanzarote has fallen victim to its own success, to mass tourism, to speculation, and to corruption. Nowadays, there are drug problems and thefts. Prosperity has attracted all sorts of unsavory individuals believe this is the fate of all paradisiacal places on Earth.Only those who knew the island more than 10 years ago can comprehend how detrimental this change has been, both for the residents who suffer from it and for tourists who uphold certain values. It's sad
Something needs to be done about that awful main drag in Puerto del Carmen. It's chav central come the evening. A better classier cliental of tourists need to be attracted. I first went to Lanzarote 15 years ago and that resort nearly put me off Lanzarote. Thank goodness I discovered Cost Teguise not long after, and from there Arrecife, where I now tend to holiday.
@@WalesktfI agree. The tourists coming now are as chavvy af. Loud, brash, rude, drunk, disrespectful. Walking around without shirt on, and expecting to sit down to eat without the shirt too. Becoming outraged when asked to put a shirt on when getting in a taxi. The island was completely different 10 years ago. I'm ashamed to be British when I see how some of them behave!
I'm in full support of this
I support their manifesto. Lanzarote simply can not support the current level of tourism; when I see the new gigantic hotel, I think of all the water it’s using…and wonder where the profits are going, among other things. The government need to get a grip on this and stop the runaway development. The island is at a critical spot…once ruined, it can’t go back. Thanks for filming and explaining, Mike.
Do you not then think the protests should be directed at the government?
Rightly or wrongly, all I see from these protests is ‘go away tourists’.
Well j just spent 2 weeks in lanzerte abd the place was empty. Had a great time
Very good to understand the protest. Wonder what the headlines will be in English papers.
Every country now is fighting for their sovrenty. Whats wrong 2ith our governments
I haven't been to Lanzarote in around seven years, mostly stayed in Costa teguise, after booking for this year I came across your channel after searching to see how much had changed, the beauty of Lanzarote was the quiet, the low white wash buildings even at popular tourist destinations you could still do what you wanted to do, I hope things work out for the best for Lanzarote!
Good update many thanks 😊
Been coming for 12 years + we book independently rather than a package. Selfish or not we preferred it in the mid to late 201+ when you didn’t feel the hussle & bustle in and around resorts . There is a happy medium somewhere For residents & tourists 🤞🤞
Another great insight Mike
Sadly this is happening across many countries right now...many properties around the world were bought up about 10 years ago and became commodity..rental properties..that is why now the world of a generation is lacking long term living. Also the greedy food retailers who stayed open during covid have really pushed prices of food so high..same with electric,gas and oil...all becoming billionaires. 2021-2024..the biggest transfer of wealth. Also the EU is also helping to house people from Africa, Ukraine and The Middle East. All these problems are components of greed.
Went to Lanzarote a month ago. Too windy for me.
People are rising up hope govs are listening
I am a regular visitor to Lanzarote, usually in the winter months. I can fully understand the concerns of local residents. Thank you the video. I suffer a little with arthritis and sinus issues, so I like the climate and sea air in Lanzarote. Especially during the colder months in Ireland, where I live and work and Wales where I originate from.
I'm Welsh too and suffer with the same problems as you. Hence I'm on Lanzarote every November for two weeks, and January/February for another fortnight. When I stay, I never stay in an all inclusive hotel. I always rent a property. I spend my money in as many Spanish/Lanzarote bars/restaurants/cafes. Hence I stay in Arrecife and not one of the three main tourist areas. I would like to buy a property there one day and would have liked to have lived there full time. However, due to the muppets that voted for Brexit I can no longer do that.
@@Walesktf Aside from the odd breakfast in Goofy Burger, I rarely eat out. I stay in the same apartment complex in Los Pocillos every trip. I shop in either Arrecife or at the Deiland shopping centre, occasionally the Mercadona Supermarket in PDC. I cycle, walk and swim a lot while I am there. Very rare, I would use the bars, only if family and friends are there when I am. It is very much rest and recuperation I travel to Lanzarote for. 👍
I have PTOA too, and im going for my first time in 2 weeks time. Im looking forward to it
Stayed for 3 months , and I’ve never seen it so busy, hoardes of people from the huge ships in Arrecife, Jameos del Agua rammed with coaches and cars, rubbish left on beaches. Love Lanzarote and the people, we are just visiting, so total respect for them and their beautiful island
I'm finished with Lanzarote. Overpriced flights and restaurants. Corsica is cheaper with stunning scenery and towns.
Agree afterall it's windy n nor that stunning !😅
What's the weather like between November-March? Is it as good as Lanzarote's when I tend to visit?
I agree unfortunately, I've been coming since 2008, but the last 3 years the costs have jumped by between a 1/4 & 1/3 for the same experience, I feel this year will be our last visit, just don't feel we are getting value for money any more.
Always be a part of me though, so best wishes to the island.
We off too Greec in September .Welcome people.😂❤❤❤😂 ❤😂❤😂❤😂
I absolute support their claims. We know Lanzarote from before Covid and it was never a problem to visit a place. It was peaceful, not too many people. But in the last two years, no matter where you go there are masses of people. We used to visit the bodegas in La Gueria and last year I was shocked how many busses were in the parking lot. It was so overcrowded that we took flight. Since then we have decided to not rent a car anymore but to stay local und visit what is able to do within a walking distance and hope that these masses of people are only an after Covid phenomenon.
It’s difficult to argue with any of the points being made and I agree, the current levels are unsustainable . Thank you both for this video and I will share it with my friends in the uk, who are being mislead by the British press.
I have certainly noticed the rapid expansion in tourism since we first came to Lanza. Its so noticeable how restaurants and other businesses are struggling with staff etc. Playa Blanca is not as attractive as it used to be. After recently opening a 1700 bedroom mega hotel, the Cabildo have now approved a new 659 bed hotel to be built. Madness.
You mean, of course, the 700 bed hotel, rather than 1700.
I keep hearing people taking about hotels, but note that Lanzarote has fewer hotel beds than we had in 2017. The issue isn't hotel beds. The "madness," as you put it, is the beds in privately owned properties that are being let out for holidays. That's where the huge explosion in tourism has come from.
@LanzaroteInformation yes indeed, 700 not!t 1700. Nevertheless, it seems 'madness' that officials must be aware of issues and yet promote more rooms. Every hotel room puts a demand on the infrastructure and unless extra capacity is put into the systems, surely it will break down. Make extra capacity and then build the rooms. Not the other way round, surely.
agree with you Ian, although we stay PDC. those massive hotels and if All inclusive means many dont spend money in the town and it goes to big corporate businesses.
@@ianappleby8426 But there aren't more rooms in hotels - today we have 65,000 hotel beds, in 2017 we had 74,000. The extra capacity is in private lettings and that's where we need to reduce the numbers. That's why the new letting law is so important, because currently, it so easy for anybody who owns a place here to put it on the market for holiday letting.
Went to Tenerife for the first time last year, and booked again for this year (Los Christianos). Lovely place and locals. I just want to go out have a few drinks with my partner nice meal go back to my room. I did see a few signs last year tbh. I hope they get the correct balance of tourism and money back to where It belongs.
Very informative vlog Mike. It is a concern to Lanzarote residents that the infrastructure has fallen behind so badly. There should be a priority of new builds for locals, another desalination plant asap. The Cabildo do not help though when a new 1700 bed hotel is built and approvals given for another one with 700 beds and they are struggling to obtain staff. Another thing you mentioned was the cruise ships which dock several times per week and deposit thousands of people who probably spend very little in comparison to the overcrowding they cause. This became an issue for Venice who I believe have now reduced/ stopped cruise ships from entering their canal. The Canaries are beautiful islands and some controls on numbers will have to be introduced for the benefit of locals.
let's be blunt....too many people on the planet. Solution? No idea! 😩
There's plenty of alternative competition who will appreciate the business within 4hrs of the UK 🇬🇧 if we're not wanted or appreciated. If its a supply and demand situation the markets will decide the future of Tourism.
This is the reality and I wish I could up vote your comment more.
Has anyone seen tourist towns after the investment stops?
Turkeys voting for Christmas…
Been visiting for over 20 years, things have certainly changed. However it was only a couple of years ago the government were promoting tourism driving tourists to Lanzarote, what did they expect to happen? Of course tourism numbers have risen, they were pushing for it.
Gone too far? Most likely! I agree with everything in your video.
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Its not as bad as in britain ,if you complain about the housing or accomodation shortage or the strain thats put on our road system or our quality of life with the huge numbers of foreigners in our country at any one time ,then you are called a racist and bigot ,and many lose their jobs for complaining ,
Yes very different they're not tourists they're coming for the benefits ! 🇬🇧
I hear them regarding the environment, but its tourism that helps their businesses there. Shame no one cares who enters the Uk. At least we, as tourists go go home after our holiday. The foreigners that come into the UK stay! Seeking homes money and life. If us brits say" go home" we're wrong !
As someone who visits Lanzarote twice a year for last 10 years and speak to and have got to know locals who work in tourism/hospitality industry of some kind i am in full agreement of this protest. I hope the government listens and sorts the infrastructure and reserves affordable housing for the local workers and if it means reducing the tourists a bit, so be it. Thanks for showing this video, will be coming out myself next month
One way to help locals get back into affordable housing would be the local government puts a ban on all advertising of short term holiday lets ( less than 6 months ).
Anyone found to be advertising any type of short term holiday rental would face huge fines… a lot more property would instantly get put on the market, and due to the inability of holiday letting, it would drive prices down as investors would not get an attractive return. We have been visiting the canary’s for well over 30 years now and it’s getting worse each year..We fully support the true canaries residents & we look forward to seeing tourists numbers drop substantially & the get rich quick companies move away..
For sure, we need to reduce the number of homes being let out to tourists, but we don't need to stop it all together - it's a question of balance, and hopefully will be addressed by the new letting law going through The Canarian parliament shortly.
Tourist numbers have increased to beyond pre Covid levels everywhere. I doubt if anything will or can change as strong enforceable measures to limit or reduce tourist accommodation on the islands will be met with opposition. The local governments are better off trying to build new resident only accommodation so that workers can improve their quality of life.
Maybe the apartments owners should look after their own, rent to them never mind the tourists
All fine and dandy, just as long as the landlord can evict you if you don’t pay the rent.
My understanding is that this is a problem that landlords have to weigh up when choosing long term (locals) or short term (tourists) as tenants.
The rights of tenants has caused this issue.
locals should always be the priority; it is sad to see how properties in nice places get bought out by a small number of investors who profit from them and very little is left to support local economy... I love visiting Canary Islands, especially Lanzarote, and see how much have changed in over a decade and not necessarily for the better :/ It seems that numbers of properties are owned by same investors and all that local people get are low paid service jobs and nowhere reasonable to live; hope that changes!
Too much All Inclusive,the revenues do not benefit the local economy such as restraunts and bars.
THis is what Cesar Manrique didn't want for the island, but building more hotels, holiday apartments is obviously going to attract more tourists. I agree that the island had deteriorated in terms of the number of tourists who do not respect the island the number of acivities which are detrimental to the eco system, the Canarian Government and the Local authorities need to take the responsibility for the greed and most probably corruption that has allowed this to happen. Don't blame all your visitors some of us adore rhe island and would never do anything to disrespect it and its people.
Been going to Lanzarote for 26 years. Went twice last year and have never known it so busy. Couldn't get in restaurants or get a taxi and the buses were full and that's when they even turned up.
Even some locals couldn’t get a bus to work they were so full of tourists
@@briananderson6316 I know it was really bad.
canal gestion losing 50 per cent of water through leaks.landlords pay 24 +7 per cent tax.to long term rentals so people can move in damage not pay then squat.hence people would rather leave empty.fault not putting back taking it al from a cash cow
God greed is everywhere
Most probably work in the tourist industry.
unfortunately it seems to be same problem wear different parts of the world are nicer places to live and visit we have problems in wales with not houses my children live in Australia they have similar problems iv been visiting the island for 30 years and seen big changes it’s definitely busier i think it will get worse if u holiday in main land Europe in summer months its lot hotter its better climate on islands
You cant eat scenery tourism jobs are low paid and hardwork
We pay there wages 😡😡SO EVERYONE PLEASE DONT GO JANUARY & FEBRUARY SO HOW IT HURST 😎😎😎
I'm sure you can't speak Spanish because you can't even write English properly.
La zerotte doent grow anything and it relies 90% on tourist. If you stop people vististing then there will be nothing for the locals to earn money. What do theg want ? Or expect ?
Did you watch the video? We answer your questions.
If they don't like tourism all off a sudden, i suggest the Brits stop going and watch them squeal.