After the British newspaper Daily Mirror warned two weeks ago of the "imminent collapse" of the Canary Islands due to excessive tourism growth, several newspapers from the Nordic countries have published journalistic articles along the same lines.
According to the tourism news portal tourinews.es, the second largest newspaper in Sweden, Expressen, has published several reports focusing on concepts such as "hatred of tourists in the Canary Islands", "collapse", or discontent among cleaning staff in hotels, which is associated with terms such as "slavery".
Canary Islands Tourism denied the risk of collapse and argues that the number of arrivals to the archipelago last year, about 16 million tourists, is similar to that recorded in 2017.
Despite the denial, other media outlets in Denmark such as B.T. or Norway such as Dagbladet, have published information in that regard, based on a report by Ben Maget Ecologists in Action in which it is denounced that "the Canary territory is more than overexploited. We have exceeded the carrying capacity of the territory seven times, which results in a scenario of systemic collapse."
Canary Islands Tourism explains that there are about 300,000 tourists daily throughout the archipelago, so "the pressure on the territory and its resources and the local population is much lower than in other destinations that concentrate the arrival of tourists in specific periods of the year."
