Your Santorini dream holiday...and what you can REALLY expect: Never-ending lines of tourists queuing up in the baking heat for hours and packed narrow streets where you can barely move - no wonder locals have had enough

Hordes of visitors person been seen streaming disconnected a ferry onto nan mini Greek vacation destination of Santorini arsenic fears equine nan relentless torrent of arriving holidaymakers is making nan land unlivable.

Inflammatory footage showed agelong lines of group disembarking from a ferry arsenic those waiting to committee were near queuing up successful nan power successful their droves.

Locals person progressively shared outrage astatine nan perceived over-saturation of nan picturesque isle successful nan Aegean, pinch 17,000 visitors expected to get each time successful nan highest vacation season, according to councillor Panos Kavallaris.

'I activity seasonally present successful Santorini,' 1 commented nether nan clip connected TikTok. 'There is nary respect for nan land aliases for us, from garbage, to times erstwhile nan buses don't return us.'

'Santorini was a extremity connected our cruise past year,' 1 aggrieved tourer added, seeing nan queues. 'Should ne'er person sewage disconnected (and won’t adjacent time). One Instagram spot, litter everyplace and perfectly rammed streets.'

The volcanic island, pinch a organization of astir 15,500, saw astir 3.5million arrivals past year, pinch much expected to travel done 2024.

Victor Karayannis, a local circuit guideline on nan island, shared nan footage of visitors arriving successful Santorini pinch nan caption: 'I heard connected nan news that Santorini does not person truthful galore visitors nowadays... headdress [false]'.

The video was met pinch mixed responses, immoderate saying they had visited quiet parts of nan land aliases seen little ft postulation erstwhile travelling extracurricular of nan highest months.

One said: 'The larboard yes is ever a spot chaotic but Santorini’s is getting an unfair bad rep. It’s stunning and location are quieter areas eg Perissa. Just had a 10/10 vacation here.'

'I'm truthful gladsome I went successful 2007 earlier Instagram influencers were moreover a thing!' different added. 

'Honestly, what did you expect successful nan mediate of July?' a 3rd said.

But for galore connected nan island, nan presence of visitors en masse presents a perchance existential threat.

Santorini has relied connected tourism since nan 1960s, earlier which it mostly depended connected agriculture to support its economy.

'They request to find nan correct balance' edifice worker Onur Kilic, 28, told nan i. 'They could limit nan magnitude of cruise ships, but nan authorities is not doing capable – if this continues I will time off nan island.' 

Days prior, Mr Kavallaris urged residents successful a since-deleted Facebook station to enactment astatine location and debar nan 17,000 visitors he said authorities expect to get connected nan land per day.

'Another difficult time for our metropolis and land is up pinch nan presence of 17,000 visitors from cruise ships. We inquire for your attention: limit your movements arsenic overmuch arsenic possible,' nan councillor said, but nan station quickly caused outrage among locals.

Residents criticised nan councillor's request, pinch 1 commenting connected societal media: '[He] officially asks locals to fastener themselves astatine home, truthful that visitors tin rotation astir free. Marvelous.'

Shocking images from nan picturesque land this week show masses of visitors queuing connected constrictive walkways on achromatic buildings pinch nan celebrated sea-blue domes for nan champion vacation shots.

The queue to scope nan viewing spot successful nan clifftop colony of Oia tin now return much than 20 minutes.

Santorini is simply a cardinal stopover of nan Greek cruise experience. But pinch parts of nan land nearing saturation, officials are considering restrictions.

'We request to group limits if we don't want to descend nether overtourism,' Santorini politician Nikos Zorzos said.

'There must not beryllium a azygous other bed... whether successful nan ample hotels aliases Airbnb rentals.'

Concerns astir overtourism and its effect connected locals person seen wide protests return spot crossed Europe this year, pinch residents calling for restrictions connected short-term lets to negociate spiralling location prices, and greater diversification of economies.

Earlier this month, hundreds of residents successful Alicante massed for nan first time to show done areas of nan Spanish metropolis celebrated pinch visitors to 'demand that limits beryllium placed connected nan tourism industry'.

Salva, a spokesperson for nan organising 'Alicante donde vas?' group, told MailOnline: 'It is nan administrations (city council, autonomous community, cardinal government) that must return measures to put nan needs of nan group who unrecorded successful nan metropolis astatine nan forefront, compared to nan wishes of those who sojourn nan city.

'We dream that nan objection is nan first measurement truthful that much group consciousness that it is morganatic to declare nan correct to unrecorded pinch dignity successful our city, and to beryllium capable to subordinate together to build a neighbourhood activity that says that Alicante is not for sale.'

At nan commencement of July, tourists successful Barcelona were sprayed pinch h2o guns arsenic residents made their feelings known pursuing perceived inaction by nan section authorities.

Under nan banner 'Enough! Let's put limits connected tourism', immoderate 2,800 group - according to constabulary - marched on a waterfront territory of Barcelona to request a caller economical exemplary that would trim nan millions of visitors that sojourn each year. 

Protesters carried signs reference 'Barcelona is not for sale,' and, 'Tourists spell home,' earlier immoderate utilized h2o guns connected visitors eating outdoors astatine restaurants successful celebrated tourer hotspots. 

Chants of 'Tourists retired of our neighbourhood' rang retired arsenic immoderate stopped successful beforehand of nan entrances to hotels.

Barcelona's rising costs of housing, up 68 percent successful nan past decade, is 1 of nan main issues for nan movement, on pinch nan effects of tourism connected section commerce and moving conditions successful nan metropolis of 1.6 cardinal inhabitants. 

Rents roseate by 18% successful June from a twelvemonth earlier successful tourer cities specified arsenic Barcelona and Madrid, according to nan spot website Idealista. 

For years, nan metropolis has worn anti-tourist graffiti pinch messages specified arsenic 'tourists spell home' aimed astatine visitors immoderate blasted for the rising prices and shaping of nan system astir tourists.

Violent clashes collapsed retired successful Venice successful April complete a contentious caller 'tourist tax' aimed astatine reducing numbers to nan humanities Italian city.

Demonstrators equipped pinch signs and banners lined nan historical canals and constrictive alleyways of nan Italian metropolis to show their contempt for nan unsocial caller argumentation aimed astatine clamping down connected overtourism successful engaged periods. 

Critics person claimed that nan €5 (£4.30) fee, to beryllium implemented successful nan engaged summertime months, is improbable to put a important dent successful nan circa 30 cardinal trips made to Venice each twelvemonth - and could backfire by tarnishing nan city's nationalist image.

Under nan caller rules, a interest will beryllium charged to visitors passing done nan metropolis without staying overnight. 

Authorities dream this mightiness thief negociate nan travel of immoderate 30 cardinal visitors drawn successful by nan city's history and romanticist canals each year. 

Venice has had a agelong hold to spot nan scheme travel to fruition, pinch first proposals brought successful 2019 group backmost by nan pandemic.

The metropolis besides dropped plans to complaint day-trippers €10 a time past year, citing 'resistance'.