Tourists go home

[gonzo]

More protests in Spain and Tenerife this weekend about Tourists swamping their towns and driving prices up etc.

Stop the planes

Think they've got a point to be fair.

They just want less...

Edited June 16, 2025 by gonzo

[Whitestar]

They reckon that biting the hand that feeds is not advisable.

[dave2980]

They are protesting the lack of affordable homes in tourist areas, not the actual tourists.

Without the tourists, they'd be f*cked

[bolty58]

Short sighted in the extreme. The country is a bit of a basket case. Youth unemployment was up around 26% the last time I looked.

Severely damaging the hospitality industry would be a master stroke. Tourism and Brit, Scandy, German and Belgian migrants pulled them out of the shit in 2012. They were grateful then.

[Big E]

This is why Airbnb needs proper regulation. There are just no rules and you deal with a load of shite. 
 

£900 a night next door to me was going for min 2 night booking at weekend. 20+ people every week being cunts. Can see why they protest. More and more gaffs here going the same way. Fuck me you can even an Airbnb in horwich 

[Ani]

1 hour ago, dave2980 said:

They are protesting the lack of affordable homes in tourist areas, not the actual tourists.

Without the tourists, they'd be f*cked

This is true. They know they need tourists. They also know they need housing for their kids. We were in Lanzarote last week (thinly veiled) and prices there are not much different than you see in Leeds. Why build small houses when tourists snap up all the large villas ? 

[tomski]

I’m sacking Spain off, ungrateful sods can have what they want

[London Wanderer]

Hopefully they go after those orange weirdos who like parading around Benidorm 

[Big E]

They won’t be arsed in Benidorm as there are still plenty of gaffs to go around. 

[London Wanderer]

14 minutes ago, Big E said:

They won’t be arsed in Benidorm as there are still plenty of gaffs to go around. 

Shame 😄

But yeah it’s wildly out of control in many places. Air B&B has a lot to answer for.

Edited June 16, 2025 by London Wanderer

[Big E]

8 hours ago, London Wanderer said:

Shame 😄

But yeah it’s wildly out of control in many places. Air B&B has a lot to answer for.

Benidorm is sound. You can easily avoid folk you want to avoid 

[bolty58]

44 minutes ago, Big E said:

Benidorm is sound. You can easily avoid folk you want to avoid 

What if I want to avoid Benidorm?

[Big E]

6 minutes ago, bolty58 said:

What if I want to avoid Benidorm?

Surely a man of your status doesn’t venture away from the higher ends of the Spanish riviera 

[Traf]

1 hour ago, bolty58 said:

What if I want to avoid Benidorm?

Very easily done.

[Traf]

11 hours ago, London Wanderer said:

Hopefully they go after those orange weirdos who like parading around Benidorm 

Scouse girls?

[bolty58]

14 hours ago, Traf said:

Scouse girls?

He clearly doesn't like trolley dollies.

[bolty58]

15 hours ago, Big E said:

Surely a man of your status doesn’t venture away from the higher ends of the Spanish riviera 

Status? Quo vadis with this?

[Underpants]

Domestically it can be an issue. I wouldn't want to live in places like Edinburgh and Stratford-upon-Avon. 

I remember reading about a location somewhere in Cornwall that was used for the Poldark series. It was a small place. Locals where chuffed at first but then came the tourist. It's a double edge sword.

Here's another consequence of fame.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jan/09/breaking-bad-house-for-sale-walter-white-home-albuquerque-new-mexico

 

[Leyther_Matt]

No protests in Girona, even being down the road from Barcelona. Locals very happy to see tourists. 

[gonzo]

Ah so locals with legitimate concerns about the influx of foreigners for all kinds of justified reasons speak up and it's sensationalised in the media in to being a radical protest and that they hate all foreigners and want them out?

Surprised nobody has labelled them thickos or racists.

[kent_white]

3 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Ah so locals with legitimate concerns about the influx of foreigners for all kinds of justified reasons speak up and it's sensationalised in the media in to being a radical protest and that they hate all foreigners and want them out?

Surprised nobody has labelled them thickos or racists.

Thicko and racisto even! 😁

And schorchio! 

 

[deeane Koontz]

14 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Ah so locals with legitimate concerns about the influx of foreigners for all kinds of justified reasons speak up and it's sensationalised in the media in to being a radical protest and that they hate all foreigners and want them out?

Surprised nobody has labelled them thickos or racists.

Probably not tried to burn folk alive yet. 

Edited June 20, 2025 by deeane Koontz

[gonzo]

42 minutes ago, deeane Koontz said:

Probably not tried to burn folk alive yet. 

If some knob head hijacked the protest and decided to do that would that then nullify the locals original concerns?

Or does everyone then get tied in with the dicks just out for a row?

Well we all know the answer to that don't we.

[Big E]

17 minutes ago, gonzo said:

If some knob head hijacked the protest and decided to do that would that then nullify the locals original concerns?

Or does everyone then get tied in with the dicks just out for a row?

Well we all know the answer to that don't we.

Look at you getting ideas of how to radicalise Blackpool 

[green genie]

On 18/06/2025 at 09:16, Underpants said:

Domestically it can be an issue. I wouldn't want to live in places like Edinburgh and Stratford-upon-Avon. 

I remember reading about a location somewhere in Cornwall that was used for the Poldark series. It was a small place. Locals where chuffed at first but then came the tourist. It's a double edge sword.

Here's another consequence of fame.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jan/09/breaking-bad-house-for-sale-walter-white-home-albuquerque-new-mexico

 

The KLF main gripe is the number of houses bought as second homes by Tarquin and Gemima to show up for two weekends a year leaving them as ghost towns over winter