Traffic was stopped on a picturesque Tenerife mountain road as two holidaymakers had a tear up as anti-tourism campaigners shared the clip ahead of their protests reigniting
09:45, 29 Dec 2025
Two tourists had a tear up in Tenerife(Image: SOLARPIX.COM)
Two tourists including a heavyweight British holidaymaker turned a mountain road into a boxing ring as they had a tear up in Tenerife. The scrap ended in a quick knockdown as the pair brought traffic to a standstill.
But although the losing man took a heavy fall onto the tarmac and initially looked to have been knocked unconscious, he quickly got back on his feet and instead of letting his fists do the talking, started effing and blinding over the din of car horns being sounded by other motorists.
The angry Brit appeared to be having a go at the woman accompanying his adversary and complaining she had swung at his bike while he was trying to take a “f**king photo”.
An angry bald Brit appeared to have a go at the woman in the motor(Image: SOLARPIX.COM)
But he appeared to get back into the driver’s seat of a white hire car in the forefront of the shot after ending his foul-mouthed rant.
The pitiful punch-up happened on the winding road to the small mountain hamlet of Masca in the north-west of Tenerife. The beautiful village usually draws tourists in search of something more than sun and sea and is known as the “Machu Picchu of Europe”.
Islanders who are expected to restart their long-running protests against mass tourism over the next few months to coincide with its peak holiday season were today using the footage as an example of the sort of visitors they don’t want to see.
The scrap was caught on social media footage(Image: SOLARPIX.COM)
One commenting on the fight scene wrote: “Quality tourism.” Another, responding to a woman who said “our island is becoming so beautiful”, added sarcastically: “These are their traditions, they must be respected.”
A third pointed out in an apparent suggestion you sometimes have to put up with a few undesirables for the better good: “Tourism leaves thousands of millions of euros in the islands, something which bananas don’t do.”
Tenerife has been at the heart of protests against the effects of mass tourism that have taken place in Spain over the past couple of years.
The two men traded blows on the roadside(Image: SOLARPIX.COM)
Graffiti in English left on walls and benches in and around Palm Mar in southern Tenerife at the start of April last year included ‘My misery your paradise’ and ‘Average salary in Canary Islands is 1,200 euros.’
In an apparent UK backlash, a response left in English on a wall next to a ‘Tourists go home’ message said: “F##k off, we pay your wages.”
In October last year demonstrators stormed a Tenerife beach and surrounded holidaymakers in their swimwear during another anti-mass tourism demo.
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