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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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[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's the second largest city in spain. I think they will be fine with a reduction in tourism.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't expect it will even reduce tourism that much, at least not in the long term. Barcelona is one of Europe's most famous cultural centres. People will still want to go. They just need enough hotels to get set up to handle them

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Or have just enough hotels for how many tourists they want. Who cares if 3 billion people could and would visit Barcelona tomorrow. Nobody is obligated to build enough hotels for them.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

Well yes, that's reasonable. My point is just that AirBnB is definitely not essential to the tourist appeal of Barcelona

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Precisely. I live near Yosemite National Park, and it would be an absolute disaster if there were enough hotels, campgrounds, and amenities to meet the demand. The demand FAR exceeds its capacity for tourists, but it would destroy the very reason for that demand if that actually happened.

So what did they do? Set rules for the number of tourists allowed in the park per day, and stuck to it.