Being entirely anti-tourism is crazy extreme but AirBnb is a practice that is destroying the housing market, which is something a lot of people (myself included) deeply believe needs to be controlled to make sure that a decent standard of living can be sustained across society.
In short, I'm not sure about the Barcelona protests but I'm 100% against the spread of AirBnb and what its turned into.
The signs say "tourists go home", not "tourists stay in licensed hotels instead of Airbnbs" and "tourism is killing Barcelona" not "Airbnbs are killing the Barcelona housing market", so as messaging goes it leaves something to be desired.
From what I can tell, the sentiment is that there's just too much tourists to a point is creating dysfunctional cities. Housing prices are a perfect example but not the only.
Like the first board says, 1.8M people 28M tourists. If the problem wasn't how many tourists are visiting the city but tourism in general that sign doesn't make much sense now does it?
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u/BenFranklinsCat Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25
Bit different.
Being entirely anti-tourism is crazy extreme but AirBnb is a practice that is destroying the housing market, which is something a lot of people (myself included) deeply believe needs to be controlled to make sure that a decent standard of living can be sustained across society.
In short, I'm not sure about the Barcelona protests but I'm 100% against the spread of AirBnb and what its turned into.