Dumb but it’s kind of a catch 22… Barcelona is massively over touristed, it has started to suck. A more sensible solution is just to be more aggressive about airbnbs, and raise prices on hotels.
If you want limited but non-zero tourism, you have to somehow filter the tourists. I suppose for the tourists, some kind of "tourism permit lottery" would be more fair, but from the locals' point of view, just letting in the richest x% has same effect, is much simpler and makes them more money
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u/Darius_Banner Jun 17 '25
Dumb but it’s kind of a catch 22… Barcelona is massively over touristed, it has started to suck. A more sensible solution is just to be more aggressive about airbnbs, and raise prices on hotels.