The great British seaside may be known for ice-cream pinching seagulls and penny arcade machines, but holidaying in the UK may soon set Brits back by more than the cost of a lost cone.
current model is out of date and some of them are saying, let s take a step back and let s have a moratorium, a temporary one, on say building any more hotels or resort areas, because the amount of tourists here has got to the point where there is very little wiggle room, wiggle room in terms of the land that is available for building and little wiggle room in terms of the land that s available for housing for people who work here, which is one of the primary problem is, that in tourist areas, because of high rents and people buying second holiday homes, a lot of workers here, who service the tourist industry itself, can t actually live near their work and have to travel many hours to get to and from work. so perhaps a limit on tourist numbers, there is also talk of a tourism tax, but how that would be invested is also hugely important issue that any money garnered from a tourism tax would need to go into perhaps building houses for the workers in the tourist resort areas. but i think
that s available for building and little wiggle room in terms of the land that s available for housing for people who work here, which is one of the primary problems, is that in tourist areas, because of high rents and people buying second holiday homes, a lot of workers here who service the tourist industry itself can t actually live near their work and have to travel many hours to get to and from work. so perhaps a limit on tourism numbers. there s also talk of a tourism tax, but how that would be invested is also a hugely important issue that any money garnered from a tourism tax would need to go back into perhaps building houses for the workers in the tourist resort areas. but i think what the protesters today are saying is pause, take a step back. let s reimagine how the canary islands is and are for both the people who live here and the people who want to visit us, because we need to continue to have tourists. but perhaps we want tourists
tourists here has got to the point where there is very little wiggle room, wiggle room in terms of the land that is available for building and little wiggle room in terms of the land that s available for housing for people who work here, which is one of the primary problems is, that in tourist areas, because of high rents and people buying second holiday homes, a lot of workers here, who service the tourist industry itself, can t actually live near their work and have to travel many hours to get to and from work. so perhaps a limit on tourist numbers, there is also talk of a tourism tax, but how that would be invested is also hugely important issue that any money garnered from a tourism tax would need to go back into perhaps building houses for the workers in the tourist resort areas. but i think what the protesters today saying is to pause. take a step back. let s reimagine how the canary islands is and are for both the people living here and the people
Barcelona, Amsterdam, and the Canary Islands are introducing measures to combat over-tourism, which occurs when there are too many visitors to a particular destination.