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THE Canary Islands have been named on Fodor’s ‘No List’, a travel guide which encourages travellers to think more about the destination before they book.
The Spanish sunshine islands are in second place in the Fodor list, behind Antarctica which is named at number one.
The annual list highlights the places where tourism is placing unsustainable pressure on the land and local communities does not call for a boycott. However, it urges UK travellers to think long and hard about their destination and consider giving the hotspots a break.
In the first half of 2025, the archipelago of eight inhabited islands welcomed 7.8 million visitors and processed more than 27 million airport passengers, a five per cent increase on the previous year.
Tourism accounts for some 35 per cent of GDP, and employs about 40 per cent of its 2.2 million population.
Over the past two years, thousands have taken to the streets of Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote to protest soaring housing costs, environmental strain and community erosion – all caused, they say, by unregulated property development and mass tourism.
Marching under the banner ‘Canarias tiene un límite‘ (The Canaries have a limit), locals say they’ve had enough.
It’s a problem mirrored across many popular destinations in Southern Europe. Here’s Fodor’s 2026 ‘No List’
1. Antarctica
2. Canary Islands
3. Glacier National Park (Montana, US)
4. Isola Sacra (Rome, Italy)
5. The Jungfrau region, Switzerland
6. Mexico City
7. Mombasa, Kenya
8. Montmartre (Paris, France)
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