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Protesters in Barcelona have sprayed visitors with water as part of a demonstration against mass tourism.

Demonstrators marching through areas popular with tourists on Saturday chanted “tourists go home” and squirted them with water pistols, while others carried signs with slogans including “Barcelona is not for sale.”

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the city in the latest demonstration against mass tourism in Spain, which has seen similar actions in the Canary Islands and Mallorca recently, decrying the impact on living costs and quality of life for local people.

The demonstration was organised by a group of more than 100 local organizations, led by the Assemblea de Barris pel Decreixement Turístic (Neighborhood Assembly for Tourism Degrowth).

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[–] stormesp@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Before i reply i really would need to know if you are even joking, i get that its a trend on lemmy, going rondabouts in a discussion completely losing the point of the argument in a long post instead of replying to what the other user said, but to have to read arguments about tourism outside major cities in things like ski resorts and small villages when the thread is about Barcelona (and the metropolitan area around it) and im bringing examples about what other major cities are doing just seems like trolling at this point by your part.

The metropolitan area of Barcelona has 5,3 million population, im sure an example of a random village with 2k people applies. By the way, a big part of tourism in BCN is already on the edges of the metropolitan area on illegal, or at least gray, airBnbs.

Go on again about tourism on villages in specific seasons and agriculture? Just lol.

Anyway, have a good day mate.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I mean it was you who started making claims about mass tourism in general, not specifically mass tourism in cities.

If all those tourists would pack up and flock to Extremadura I bet the locals would be very welcoming, not much more than agriculture and power generation there, economy-wise.

[–] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The only mass tourism outside cities is Disney world. Only cities are big enough for mass tourism

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

That's why I asked you to define mass tourism, and gave my own definition. Which definitely fits more with how I see the word used elsewhere, e.g. one commonly given example is Hallstadt: Population 787, up to 30k tourists per day.