Tarifa joins anti-tourism movement: Activists plaster messages around surfers paradise in southern Spain after visitor numbers soar [Video]

SPAIN’S southernmost town has joined in the revolt against ‘predatory’ mass tourism after a new group started plastering messages around the town.

A resort town of 18,000 ever popular with surfers, kitesurfers and all kinds of campervan enthusiasts, Tarifa has long carved out a reputation among a certain type of traveller.

But their numbers have swelled ever more each year until the effect has been to turf local people from their own homes.

The pressure group Adelante Andalucía complained in a press release that over 90% of the town’s housing stock is now dedicated to tourism.

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This has created ‘a model of precarious, seasonal employment which creates a demand our resources cannot meet.’

It warn that the environmental impact is devastating, with the region’s limited water resources being overstretched by luxury developments such as …