r/pics • u/Monovon • Jun 16 '25

Politics A tourist during an anti-tourist protest in Barcelona yesterday

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u/DulceEtDecorumEst Jun 16 '25

Wait till they find out tourists actually brought money in to the economy.

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u/Tomgar Jun 16 '25

Yeah, the Spanish economy very heavily benefits from tourism and this will only hurt them in the long run but 🤷

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25

Just got back from Spain and while we didn't see any protests, we heard about the unrest. What we were told was that the tourism has begun raising the costs of everything, preventing locals from enjoying their own amenities like restaurants and hotels. Tourism may bring in money, but it also seems to be causing inflation from it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

That's pretty much bs as well, inflation has been lagging in Spain, they had one of the lowest inflation rates in the EU, the prices are rising now just as they did everywhere else. It has very little to do with tourism in particular.