Posted on 07/07/2024 4:29:45 AM PDT by C19fan
Thousands of protestors marched through central Barcelona this evening, waving placards and squirting holidaymakers with water guns in the latest expression of anger at perceived overtourism in Spain.
Under the slogan 'Enough! Let's put limits on tourism', some 2,800 people - according to police - marched along a waterfront district of Barcelona to demand a new economic model that would reduce the millions of tourists that visit every year.
Protesters carried signs reading 'Barcelona is not for sale,' and, 'Tourists go home,' before some used water guns on tourists eating outdoors at restaurants in popular tourist hotspots. Chants of 'Tourists out of our neighbourhood' rang out as some stopped in front of the entrances to hotels.
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OK, then you yourself likely have no indirect benefit from tourist spending.
“It’s really up to the residents”
It that true anywhere anymore?
Then there was Louis XIX, who was appropriately named—he was king for 19 minutes.
Try living with an influx of wild tourists. I totally agree with the protests. We lived much better before this area was “found”. The residents have to hunker inside every holiday. Prices on everything is sky high. There is a new group of strangers coming in every few days so a secure safe neighborhood is a thing of the past.
I had pleasure trips to Barcelona, South France, and the Basque areas of France and Spain scheduled that wound up being cancelled (twice!) due to Covid.
Hoping to actually do some travelling later this year in the shoulder season, and thought about trying to reschedule the same trip a third time. But, given the drought in Barcelona, and the issues described in this article and comments, I decided to rearrange the trip so that it is occurring almost entirely in smaller towns and cities in France.
Figured this might be the last chance to see France before Islam takes it over. But who knows? Maybe Le Pen will win and turns things around, at least for a little while.
In America New Mexico is the main place people will claim Spanish heritage rather than Mexican. And they will do so vociferously in the more rural areas of northern parts of the state.
I wonder how much of the problem involves British tourists. Their reputation is if drunken morons. The Canary Islands has a similar popular move against them.
I’m actually in n Spain as I type 😂
South /east and soon will be in Barcelona
I was in Barcelona earlier and yes it’s the busiest I’ve seen and locals were complaining but they don’t seem to understand tourism was hit hard during covid. I think they make 10% from tourism
September is the best to visit
August , don’t bother.
Well, I’ve never been to Spain. But I’ve been to Oklahoma.....
Been to Alaska a couple times. Loved it! No, it’s not 100° but what about the winters? We traveled by 5th wheel back in 2010 for 7 months. 6 weeks of it in Alaska. Would do it again in a heartbeat.
Even in the old days. Remember this is Europe. The countries are all tiny, most of them are smaller than the state I live in (AZ). Lots of travel between them. Brits on Spanish beeches drunk on Watneys was a full fledged stereotype all the way back to the 50s.
Do they arrive without lodging reservations?
I don’t know about that with DeSantis. Now, in northern Florida after the hurricane last year we didn’t get any help from the FEMA. Locals did their best to help. My husband still has debris pickup to do on our acreage. No one near to help. Oh well, we are alive and safe so no complaints.
Well, I never been to Spain
But I kinda like the music
Say the ladies are insane there
And they sure know how to use it
They don’t abuse it
Never gonna lose it
I can’t refuse it, mhm
Somethin’ goin’ on here:
“An Alaska Tourist Spot Will Vote Whether to Ban Cruise Ships on Saturdays to Give Locals a Break”
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/juneau-cruise-ships-initiative-saturdays/2024/07/07/id/1171530/
Hey Gringo! Take your green(money) and go!
Actually, I had no clue that this was the case. - as early as the Fifties.
And of course you are right with Europeans living cheek by jowl, except for the East Europeans and the Scandinavians, where the harsh climate has always limited the number of humans able to exist there. Indeed, many Europeans who traveled in the States, including myself, had no real clue how ginormous the country is 😀, and not just in sheer size.
Thank you very much for sharing this piece of knowledge about the British tourists, which is fascinating to me as a historian.
Although the big wave of tourism was still to come…then.
Oh yeah, as the population grows and transportation infrastructure grows and planes get cheaper and bigger the whole industry got bigger. More and more people on the move.
Yeah America is a challengingly huge place, and not just geographically. Heck a lot of Americans don’t understand how big it is. You see a lot of people here talking like we have a monoculture, we so don’t. We have 4 different major BBQ concepts here, 3 different names for basically the same sandwich, 3 different names for the same category of non-alcoholic drink. And, once you get west of the Mississippi, a whole lotta nothin between cities.
Oh yes - America does have regional cultures which are quite distinct.
New Englanders, for example, are rather different from Southerners, and they are not like Midwesterners, or Southwesterners or Californians or the people of the Pacific Northwest.
And even among them, there are subdivisions - upper South, Deep South, Texas with its very own regions, etc.
You know all about it much better than I ever could hope to do, I presume, so I‘d rather not waffle on for too long, lest I get thrown off FR for being such an utter bore and insufferable know- it-all😀
I try to. But as you know, there’s always more to learn.
Have fun out there. Enjoy the day.
You too, please 😀 All the best!
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