Thousands of anti-tourist protesters take to the streets in Tenerife as they demand freeze on holidaymakers...

The anti-tourist hordes filled a square in the capital brandishing banners including some that read “You enjoy we suffer” in English.More than 15,000 people waved Canary Islands’ flags and blew vuvuzelas to make a deafening noise in Santa Cruz.

At the beginning of this week a picture was published in local press showing the words "Go Home" on a hire car in the popular holiday hotspot. Other demands include the protection of natural spaces, a tourist tax and better working conditions for hotel cleaners, who joined today’s protest in Santa Cruz as they insisted to local press: “We are not slaves.”By 1pm it had increased to 15,000 with some predictions that the crowd could end up surpassing the 50,000 mark.

The protests in the Canary Islands are mostly taking place away from the main tourist areas, which in Tenerife and Gran Canaria are in the south of the islands.

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