If you’re considering jetting off for some winter sun, you might think of heading to The Canary Islands — somewhere like Tenerife or Lanzarote.
But you might want to think again, as experts have warned that the beloved Spanish holiday hotspot is ‘facing collapse’ due to overtourism.
Yes, it seems too many people have been visiting the Canary Islands, the idyllic holiday destination made up of Gran Canaria, La Palma, Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, La Gomera, and El Hierro.
A record number of people (48 million) visited the Canaries in 2023, with as many as half of these visitors estimated to be Brits.
Ben Magec — Ecologists in Action, an organisation dedicated to the protection of the environment, recently issued a warning about the overwhelming number of tourists and the quantity of urban development, claiming that the islands are at their limit and ‘facing collapse’.
So it’s worth finding an alternative place to get away, and we think we’ve found the perfect solution: Madeira.
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