From sun, sea and sangria shagathons on Spanish beaches to arty-farty appreciation tours in the great cities of culture, European tourism is in crisis.
As if soaring temperatures, droughts and murderous wildfires were not enough to make life on the Continent unbearable in holiday season, travel operators, local politicians and the increasingly hostile natives are going all Suella Braverman about the flood of migrating pleasure-seekers, the hordes of invaders, the veritable swarms of stateless revellers … and it’s not just the quantity of visitors (far too many) arriving on (not small) boats, planes and trains that is troubling them, but the “quality”, which is apparently very low indeed.
In Tenerife, graffiti has been appearing in the run-up to summer telling Brits to stay away and