Canary Island locals voice SUPPORT for anti-tourist graffiti

Slogans telling tourists to go home appeared across parts of Tenerife, Spain  By James Reynolds Published: 06:40 EST, 6 March 2024 | Updated: 06:43 EST, 6 March 2024 Angry locals have made their feelings clear about the appearance of graffiti calling for tourists to ‘go home’ scrawled across parts of Tenerife in recent days. ‘Tourists go home’, ‘My misery your paradise’, and ‘Average salary in Canary Islands is 1,200€’ have been written on walls and benches in and around the town of Palm Mar, prompting fierce debate online. The apparent reference to low pay comes as locals face rising rents pushed up by holiday rentals, and a rise in the cost of living brought on by inflation.  The largest of Spain‘s Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, Tenerife has an economy largely built around tourism from northern Europe. But the vandalism has proven divisive among residents, who have taken to community forums to express their views – some supporting the messaging as others ask whether creating a ‘lawless pigsty’ of graffiti helps. ‘We hate the 16millions visitors every year, the island [has] collapsed and we don’t have any place to go, like you. Go home!’ one resident wrote on...