Posted by It’s one of many large anti-tourism protests seen in the country over the past couple of years
Another furious message read: “We’re not your photo backdrop, this is our home.”
One local who took to the streets of the east coast Costa Blanca capital wore a bright yellow T-shirt with the words: “Tourist go home, thank you” printed in English across the front.
The start point for Friday evening’s protest was Alicante’s oldest bookshop called 80 Mundos.
The bookshop is now facing having to abandon the building it is in because the owners have sold it to a Madrid firm planning to use it for holiday apartments. Another said: “We organised a first protest around this time last year when we took to the streets against touristifcation to denounce the lack of affordable housing and the expulsion of both families and businesses from neighbourhoods.”
A female marcher holding up a protest banner in English added: “This idea that more tourism is better because it brings more wealth is not an absolute truth.
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