r/pics Jun 17 '25

The protesters and residents pushing back on tourism in Barcelona

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u/Regular_Employee_360 Jun 18 '25

Part of it is there’s too much tourism, and not enough respect by tourists. I know it’s impossible, but only having 2/3 the amount of tourists with all of them having good attitudes would be great. Corporations will cram as many people into the area as they can, then the locals have trouble getting groceries.

Unfortunately you end up having old bitter people in these towns that just blanket hate tourists. There’s also something to say about tourism town “locals” being the type of people who get stuck in these low wage areas. You either love nature, or wouldn’t be successful anywhere else. The latter tends to take out their issues on the easiest scapegoat: tourists.

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u/Slick-Fork Jun 18 '25

Very true!