Anyone with a feed that highlights Lanzarote news in British media will be used to the nonsense Birmingham Live and other Reach plc publications print about the Canaries, but the latest one takes the biscuit.
Headlined “UK tourists send “sympathy” to Lanzarote and Tenerife as they cancel holidays” it contains no expression of sympathy and no evidence of a single cancelled holiday.
“Lanzarote and Tenerife will tear up the tourism rulebook and launch a crackdown on UK tourists with new laws ahead of mass protests,” the article, written by James Rodger, continues.
They will, of course, do no such thing. There will be no crackdown of any kind, and no new laws will affect tourists.
The piece does mention the upcoming protests, planned for May 18th, by the Canarias Tiene Un Limite pressure group, but these are unlikely to affect tourists any more than the two rounds of demonstrations did last year – which is to say, hardly at all.
The protest will be aimed at local authorities and will call for a change in the tourist model, with the housing crisis, water shortages and environmental damage being the main issues.
As for those cancelled holidays, the article quotes an anonymous British person who prefers to holiday in North Yorkshire. Meanwhile, Lanzarote remains more popular than it’s ever been.
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