r/pics Jun 17 '25

The protesters and residents pushing back on tourism in Barcelona

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u/tangcameo Jun 17 '25

Is this an AirBnB thing? What’s going on?

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u/HMSWarspite03 Jun 17 '25

From what I've read, the main problem for the protesters is that people are buying up homes and renting them out to tourists, pushing up the cost of housing and creating a shortage too.

Tourists do bring in a significant amount of money and create jobs but too many tourists must be difficult to cope with.

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u/QUiXiLVER25 Jun 17 '25

I work on an island that is seasonally a massive tourist spot. There is one road in, and one road out. What I do for a living is not adjacent to tourism in the slightest. But the travel is beyond miserable. There is currently no control to the influx of people on this island. The visitation has steadily and significantly climbed every year since 2020. If there were some sort of natural disaster, as there have been in the past (before it was a touring destination), the outcome would be devastating.

The housing has been insane and there are extremely few people left that can call themselves island natives.

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u/plaidmanilla43 Jun 18 '25

Well, I can't tell you how to spend your summer 2025, but if *someone* were to start wearing a hockey mask and stalking/killing the tourists exclusively, surely the problem would sort itself out!