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Barcelona will eliminate ALL tourist apartments in 2028 following local backlash: 10,000-plus licences will expire in huge blow for platforms like Airbnb (www.theolivepress.es)

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[–] poo 75 points 4 months ago (4 children)

On one hand, biting that hand that feeds

On the other, I've lived in buildings with AirBnBs and they're a scourge. The owners and renters of short term rental properties are mostly (not all) awful - residents should be owning property, not spoiled rich landlords eating up space for tourists. Fuck AirBnB.

I also visited Spain last month and I've never felt so unwelcomed in my life while in Barcelona and would never go back, so I guess the anti-tourism is working 😂

[–] kamenlady 49 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can understand that locals are revolting around the world. The amount of tourism exploded in the last decades. The way tourists are behaving all around doesn't help.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Tourism is cancer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Tourism is annoying. Do you know what is cancer, though? Actual cancer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unchecked tourism is cancer that killing best historical urban locations and natural resources. Works just the same :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

One is a debilitating disease that traumatizes the whole family and usually said not wished even on the worst enemy. The other is… inconvenient contact with different cultures who came to appreciate your place and culture.

They’re clearly the same, yes. /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I am sorry you are unable to comprehend the literally device called of analogy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy

Educate yourself!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It was hyperbole you used, and I took issue with it because it’s badly used. Have a good day.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago

Barcelona has 12 tourists per capita per year. They could easily do with a half of that.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Barcelona is a diverse economic engine; it’s not a tourism monocrop town. It doesn’t need your patronage.

[–] Aux 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've been to Barcelona many many times and I have several friends from there. It's the best city in the world and the people there are great. If they were hostile towards you that just means that you're a dick.

[–] poo -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I say that because the city is plastered in signs saying "tourists go home", you fucking dick.

[–] Aux 0 points 4 months ago

Yeah, you should go home.