‘Tourist saturated’ Lanzarote hints at plan to limit visitors from United Kingdom

The Spanish land of Lanzarote wants less British tourists.

The fashionable vacation destination successful the Canary Island has declared itself a “tourist-saturated area” and is present considering ways to bounds the fig of UK visitors it receives.

The caller strategy is simply a bid to “reduce dependence connected the British market”.

More than 50 per cent of visitors to the Island presently travel from the United Kingdom. Some of these tourists person a estimation for rowdy behaviour.

Overcrowding is an existential menace to the island, said Lanzarote’s President María Dolores Corujo.

“We are going to proceed to beforehand the statement connected the limits to maturation adjacent though they effort to gag america with the ghost of fearfulness of harm to the representation of Lanzarote,” she insisted.

The section absorption enactment has condemned the program which they assertion volition thrust prices up for locals and devastate the section economy.

How is the land readying to forestall overtourism?

The program has a wide volition - reducing the fig of British holidaymakers.

However, authorities haven’t hammered retired details connected however this volition beryllium achieved.

There is nary item of an authoritative ‘limit’ yet, but the assembly website indicates that the tourism authorities volition soon commencement targeting selling toward different European countries.

"In Madrid, we erstwhile again highlighted our steadfast committedness to sustainability and excellence, and this besides means aspiring to person less tourists, with much spending astatine the destination truthful that they make greater wealthiness successful the system arsenic a whole,” a connection connected the assembly website reads.

"That maturation is expected successful French, Italian, Netherlands oregon mainland Spain markets and we anticipation that it volition proceed to person a nonstop interaction connected the increase successful tourer spending successful the destination."

Which different Spanish destinations are limiting overtourism?

Lanzarote is the latest of respective Spanish islands to explicit dissatisfaction with precocious numbers of tourists.

Last month, the authorities of the Balearic Islands - an archipelago which includes Mallorca, Menorca, and Ibiza - announced plans to headdress tourer numbers.

In 2022, much than 16 cardinal holidaymakers visited the islands. Officials person indicated that this volition beryllium the ‘absolute ceiling’ successful future.

"The fig of visits reached this twelvemonth is simply a maximum that should not beryllium exceeded but should thin to decrease. There indispensable beryllium a wide inclination towards the simplification of tourist places,” said Balearic Islands tourism curate Iago Negueruela

The islands were historically hotspots for alleged ‘party tourism.’

But past year, authorities imposed pugnacious regulations targeting drunken revellers.

Many all-inclusive resorts successful Magaluf, El Arenal and Ibiza imposed a portion limit.

New rules besides banned blessed hours, pub crawls, two-for-one portion offers, and the merchantability of alcohol successful shops betwixt 9:30pm and 8am.

Playa de Palma - 1 of Mallorca’s astir fashionable enactment resorts - banned radical from wearing shot shirts successful restaurants arsenic well.