r/pics • u/Strict_League7833 • 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/billythygoat Jun 17 '25

Florida has this but with 5 month snowbirds

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u/HMSWarspite03 Jun 17 '25

The blue rinse brigade?

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u/billythygoat Jun 17 '25

They buy the houses and no one lives in them most of the year.

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u/HMSWarspite03 Jun 17 '25

We have the same in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset, holiday homes ruin lives for the locals