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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)

submitted 5 months ago by zephyreks@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[-] poo@lemmy.world 77 points 5 months ago

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@lemmy.world 50 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] sunzu@kbin.run 0 points 5 months ago

Tourism is cancer.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

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

[-] sunzu@kbin.run 1 points 5 months ago

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

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

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