08-05-2025
Visitors to Spain's tallest mountain will face ‘eco tax'
Tourists visiting Teide, Spain's tallest mountain, on the Canary island of Tenerife will be charged an 'eco tax'.
It will be levied next year after complaints about 'overtourism' in Teide national park.
Rosa Dávila, the head of Tenerife's governing council, said that security cameras would also be installed to control the number of visitors to the park. Dávila has not revealed what number of people was considered excessive and what would happen when the system detected 'saturation' in the national park.
Environmental groups said that the measures were insufficient, and have demanded a substantial reduction to the more than four million visitors to the national park every year.
Tenerife's government also announced this week that a tourist tax would be charged on all tourists visiting
