Tourism is the main economic engine of the islands, but it has also priced locals out of the property market, and it is damaging the environment too.

From Euronews, around 30,000 people took to the streets of the different cities and towns of the archipelago on Sunday under the banner "The Canary Islands have a limit."

In 2023 over 16 million tourists visited and it's likely that number will be higher when 2024 is over. Tourists spent more than 20 billion euros in 2023, but it comes at a price

And whilst the protesters concede that tourism provides crucial jobs, they say most of them are low-skilled and badly paid.

As many properties are owned by second home-owners who don't live there all the time, buying a property to live in has become prohibitively expensive - and renting an affordable apartment has long been a struggle.