EXCLUSIVE: Campaigners have hailed a major march as a success sent a message to UK visitors.

Campaigners have hailed a wave of protests across the Canary Islands and mainland Spain and issued a message to tourists. It is believed that around 100,000 people marched against overtourism, its consequences and the way politicians are handling the situation in Tenerife in May. Activists say there were 50,000 in Gran Canaria, 5,000 in Lanzarote, 1,500 in Fuerteventura, 600 in La Palma, 250 in La Gomera, 50 in El Hierro, 300 in Madrid, 200 in Barcelona and "many more in other places".

A Tenerife Association of Friends of Nature (ATAN) campaigner, who wished to remain anonymous, told the Express: "This time, we were as many as we were during the largest protest in the history of the Canary

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